 Welcome to the studio at ITU Telecom World 2017 in Busan in the Republic of Korea where I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Mohamed Madkur who is VP for Global Wireless Network Marketing for Huawei Technologies. Mohamed, thank you very much for joining us today. Thank you for having me. Now I'd like to start off by asking you about the future of the industry. How do you see the future of the industry developing in the next five to ten years? Well actually a great future. I mean I'm very bullish and optimistic and actually I'm glad that you mentioned industry without mentioning the type of the industry because the way I see it is it's going to be enormous change in all industries. But if we first talk about telecom industry, I wanted to start by saying that there's still an unaddressed segment when it comes to connectivity and broadband. Just to some data point like by 2025 we're looking at connecting two billion more people to the internet and about five million more households also. That's mainly in emerging markets but that's only from people perspective but we're also looking at connecting sensors that are attached to any physical device that is used by people in their daily life. So by doing all of this I believe we will reach the really truly better connected world. This is from telecom industry but the thing is this change that's happening and the disruption that's happening on that decade by the fast pace of technological innovation will also affect other industries. I would say telecom industry can affect transportation industry, energy, health, financial. So all of those can be affected by this advances and operators need to transform those kind of changes into business opportunities. How should operators carry the transform and adapt? Well, yeah, so let me start by the theme that ITU have this year which is smart digital transformation which is basically the only thing that can get the operators or the telcos to the point that they can have business sustainability. The way I look at transformation it is not a destination. It's kind of a journey of bunch of changes that will change carriers personalities. I would say that change can address three aspects, can address technology, can address business and it can also address operation. So this is really needed for business sustainability as I mentioned earlier. The acceleration for that change is fundamental. So it is not the matter of why do I do it, it's the matter of when can you do it and how fast you will do it. Talking about transformation itself, we should not underestimate the transformation of other entities in the ecosystem. I would say it is not limited transformation, it's not limited to only individual body. I think it will touch all aspects. We can see even contents, even devices are transforming, even vendors are transforming their way of living. Industry organizations need to transform. Last but not least, regulatory and policies also need to transform in a way to provide very fair and transparent policies that encourage this kind of environment as a whole. What do you think are the greatest challenges for the carriers? Yes, so there is no mistake about it, it is not a journey in the park. You know, transformation, you know, it's a good cause, but there are two roadblocks. I would say the first one is the conflict or maybe the imbalance between the long-term transformational goal and the immediate performance results. You know the pressure on the telcos to achieve certain financial KPI. That's a first roadblock, but I believe the second roadblock would be the culture resistance from inside the organization because, you know, the telcos have been in a comfortable, profitable zone for a long time and it is very hard to change. So I believe that this point, if we address that by bringing in talents that really understand that failure is not the end of it and that would solve that second issue. So those are the two challenges I can think of right now. And finally, what's the value of attending events for you, such as ITU, telecom, world and what would you hope to achieve here? So that's very important, but to answer this question, let me tell you something about what do we believe in. We believe that we cannot achieve this transformation for the whole industry by ourselves. We address, we focus on three points. We focus on cultivating application and services. We focus on opening the standard and virtualize the platform that allows those services to run on top of it. And we also believe in the integration between multi-vendors. And all of those actually address the two assets or the two strengths of carriers, which is connectivity and the cloud. Now, beside that, when we design our solutions or actually our ecosystem that we provide to carriers, we consider the cross trends between different things, between content, service, infrastructure, even between government needs, regulatory, all of those things. All of what I mentioned now, I guess this is the value for your event. So ITU brings in many leaders at different levels of the value chain. They represent different bodies in the industry ecosystem. If you couple that by good topics, like for example, emerging markets, like how to maximize the value of what the operators have, how to reinvent, how telcos can reinvent themselves. I think that kind of a mix will bring the value that not only will we perceive, I think the whole industry will perceive. So I would like to thank ITU for the good work that you guys have here in Busan. Well, we thank you for your support and for being here in the studio today. We wish you the very best of luck with it. Pleasure. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.