 Welcome to WRC 19, the World Radio Communication Conference here in Shamashach in Egypt. We're very pleased to be joining the studio today by Tom Hickey, who is the Chief Legal Officer for Iridium Satellite. Tom, welcome to the studio. Great to be here, Max. Thanks for having me. Now, I'd like to start off by asking you a little bit about Iridium Satellite. Perhaps you could tell us a little bit about its origins and where it's going. Iridium is the only true global commercial satellite system in the world. It has a constellation of 66 satellites as well as a number of asperes on orbit. And we provide voice data communications from low earth orbit, about 760 kilometers from the earth. And we connect people who are outside terrestrial coverage. Terrestrial coverage is maybe only about 25% of the earth's surface, so we would cover the rest of it as well as providing one system where you could get coverage everywhere. Now, you're here at WRC 19. You're obviously taking the time to be here. It's an important event for you. For what reason? Absolutely, it's important. I mean, I think this is the one meeting every four years where the International Treaty on the law of using radio spectrum has changed. So I think it's really important for senior folks from companies that are impacted to be here. And this is really, there's so many people who have spent so much time from delegations all throughout the world on study groups, regional meetings, preparatory gatherings. And so this is really where all the work gets done. Folks are here for a long time away from their families and we appreciate everything that everyone's done so far. What are you hoping to be some of the outcomes from this conference? Well, we're following the particular item on GMDSS modernization and as most of the folks here will know, GMDSS is Global Maritime Distress Safety Service. So it's the, if you think of the response to the Titanic catastrophe a century ago, this is in response to that is a Maritime Safety Service, eventually for satellite. There's currently a provider today. We would be a second provider, but we would be able to extend the current coverage for satellite to the entire earth. So right now there's not coverage in high latitudes and there's not coverage if you have a bad look angle toward the equator. So we would be able to provide that. So for us it's really important. We're doing a lot of work at our company to enable this system to work. And I always tell folks that there's a lot of work getting the network ready. There's a lot of work through the ITU process getting it ready, but if you think about that first call from a ship in distress, obviously it's worth it because it is really a matter of life or death. Talking about the process in ITU, I wanted to ask you with regards to ITU study groups, how important is the work of ITU study groups in terms of the reports, the studies, et cetera, to industry? I think really important. You couldn't get the work that needs to be done at the WRC to update the international treaties without the literally tireless work of many of those study groups over the past four years. So to go through, since the ITU works through consensus to be able to establish a consensus issue by issue, hopefully coming up to the WRC, it's critical. Finally, have you got a message here for participants at WRC 19? Well, I hope that they have a good and productive meeting. This is my second WRC, so I look back to the WRC 15 meeting where Iridium was interested in a matter of global flight tracking. And so I would just say to the delegates here who are spending a lot of time away from their families that what they're doing here can really have a huge impact. Four years ago, a spectrum was protected for global flight tracking. Iridium is involved with a joint venture called Arian. And since the last WRC, there is a new worldwide global flight tracking system in place based on the good work that WRC 15 did. For the first time now, there are air traffic controllers across the Atlantic and Canada and the UK who can see planes they never saw before. There's a 24-hour, 24-7 emergency system set up in Ireland for missing any ships in distress to provide that information. So hopefully the work of WRC 15 has prevented another Malaysia Air accident from ever happening again, borrowing someone affecting the equipment on the plane. So that's just a small example, but it's an example of how in a short time from WRC to another WRC, what's done here can impact the future. And I'd love to come back in four years to talk about how those new maritime safety calls have happened and what's being done here this month will make a difference four years from now. Well, thank you so much for joining us in the studio. And hopefully we'll catch up with you again soon, if not in 2023. Great. I look forward to that. Thank you, Max. Thanks, Tom.