 Welcome to WRC 19, the World Rody Communication Conference here in Shamashlech in Egypt, where I'm very pleased to be joining the studio state by Khalid Bahia, who is the CEO of ARABSAT and also the chair of ASER. Welcome to the studio. Thank you, thanks for this opportunity. Now Khalid, I'd like to start off by just asking you a little bit about this conference, your presence here. Why is WRC 19 an important event in your calendar? Well, WRC is an event every four years for the ITU and all the decision makers and regulators who distribute the frequency among all kind of telecommunications are here and they make very important decisions on spectrum allocations and we are in the satellite industry, we care about these decisions and discussions. Of course for our spectrum, for our assets that we launch in space, that will last for like 15 to 20 years and we do care about our investment and where does it go to these spectrum allocations and we take part of those discussions and we reflect our industry point of view on those allocations and there is a big of course these are natural resources and they are like scarce to the telecom industry and we want to take part of that and make sure that we are not affected by those decisions when they make the discussions on. Now you're CEO of Rapsack, you're also chair of ASOA. ASOA got a stand here in the exhibition part of WRC 19. How's that going for you? Well actually the stand is under the global satellite coalition GSC and that's why we care about connectivity in the whole world and we, if we can say represent those industry people that care about the societies and let's make sure that almost 49 or 50 percent of the people are not connected so because of lack of infrastructure on the ground. So space or satellites are the means of getting those people connected and make sure that we care about you know the social health, education, it's not only for entertainment and people have to make sure that the rest of the world is still there yet to be connected and we want to make sure that the global satellite coalition our message is there to give those people connected and we want to make sure that we have the means whether it's satellites or spectrum to make sure that we can make it available and as I said WRC is the spectrum arena for the whole discussion in this sense. And what do you hope will be the outcomes from this conference? Well people feel that that we are in competition between satellites and IMT trust and networks. However we believe that it's all complementary. We deliver the same message. We connect people together so the notion about 5G IMT spectrum allocations fighting with satellite it's not gonna work unless we both deliver the same message and we get both the same connectivity to people and then we can live in harmony. There are issues in the agenda talk about spectrum allocations from the existing satellite services and that's why we want to make sure that our message is reflected. Our point of view is taking care of by the regulators and why that's why we are present here. I'm the CEO of one operator but there are few others also who are here taking care of that message and make sure that we are here. Now the satellite industry has changed quite substantially. It's become much more affordable over the last few years. How is that affecting Arab satellite? It does affect of course on the existing fleet that we have but we are also trying to make sure that our surfaces are compatible with the ground and also affordable with the speed and throughput that we provide to our customers with reasonable prices. Prices are coming down for sure and we're meeting those requested price from the market from the customers. Again people also talk about some latency in satellites and they're not quite as good as the terrestrial but that's not true speed throughput time latency depends on the surfaces and the application that is needed for. We have some Leo satellite, we have some Geo satellites and we have different kind of surfaces that we can offer and complement the needs of our societies and our nations. Is IMT 2020 going to put a lot of pressure on you or are you going to be able to rise to the challenge of say faster connectivity in the marketplace? Of course we have to meet that. The consumers look for connectivity, people in need of connectivity and we try to play our role in a harmonic way in a very affordable and fastest way to get people connected to the networks. Finally coming back to the work of ITU, what did I ask you about the study groups? How important is the work of the study groups in terms of the resolutions, the reports and the studies to the industry? Of course the study groups are like the vehicles of where the all the technical discussion happens and we do participate as Arab sat in those study groups and in the ITU works but at the end all these recommendations come from different study groups to the different levels up to the final regulatory bodies of the government the states and that's why the BRC is here. I mean the whole international group come here for the final decision on those recommendations that come up from the study groups. We're very glad to have you here with us here in the studio. Thank you very much for joining us and hopefully we'll catch up with you again some stage in the future. Thank you. My pleasure. Thank you.