 We're here at WRC 19, the World Radio Communication Conference in Shamar, Shaking Egypt. I've just stopped Mr. Mario Manovich here in the corridor. He's the director of the Radio Communication Bureau at ITU. Mario, thanks for stopping for a second or two in your busy schedule. I wanted to ask you, tell us for those in the know, what is WRC 19? What's this event about and why is it important? The World Radio Communication Conference is a major conference of the ITU that is held every four years and it revises an international treaty that binds all the member states in the international use of the frequency bands and the satellite orbits that governs the use of radio communications around the world. So it gives place to the use of new services and applications of this type as well as to continue with the regular use of the services that we've been used to. As you know, the radio communication services are more and more an important component of our lives. They have changed how people communicate and interact. They have changed how industry plays. They have changed how we measure the various parameters of the planet and we track the climate change and we predict the weather. So everything is today has to do with radio communications. So this is the place where all this is set from a technical standpoint and from a regulatory standpoint. What are the most important aspects of this conference? So it's a little bit about what's been happening here. Well the most important aspect is the new services that are coming to the picture and how we accommodate them in the limited resource which is the radio spectrum. So one of them that is the most popular to all people is 5G which is a new generation of mobile communication that is called officially IMT 2020 and this will allow not only communicate faster and with more data coming through incredible speeds but also will allow communication between objects and between machines and as people like to fantasize about self-driving cars and smart cities and industries that are fully automated and everything that is being governed through artificial intelligence. So this is one of the main issues that is going on. Then we have also the high altitude platforms that is a new let's say application that allows connectivity for rural areas and other underserved communities at a reduced price so this will help bridge the digital divide. And mainly a third one that I would highlight is the non-geostationary satellites that are a new let's say networks of hundreds of satellites that will be rotating around and around Earth at a low orbit and bringing broadband connectivity and new possibilities to connect everybody around the world at reasonable prices. So finally just what do you hope will be the major outcome from this conference? So I think the most important outcome will be to provide a way for this 5G connectivity the HAPS to be deployed and the new generations of non-geostationary satellites to be in place and provide connectivity to all inhabitants of the planet and more importantly to improve their quality of life by giving a big boost to the sustainable development goals because thanks to those we will be bringing to them the possibility to be more informed to get better healthcare to get education and job opportunities and to improve their quality of life as well as to take better care of our planet.