 We're here in Shamar Sheikh in Egypt and with the Radio Communication Assembly prior to the World Radio Communication Conference. I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today, Mr Walid Sami, who is a Senior Project Manager for Technology and Innovation for EBU. Walid, welcome to the studio. Thank you. Now, I wanted to start off by talking to you a little bit about these two events, the Radio Communication Assembly and the World Radio Communication Conference. It's actually going over a period of five weeks here in Shamar Sheikh. Why are these conferences important? Well, the EBU first of all is partner of the ITU since the creation of the ITU sector, the ITU Radio Communication sector. And the engineers of the EBU participate actively in the study groups of the ITUR. We contribute to the work of the study groups and we also are involved in the management of some of the groups. We occupy some positions like a chairman of study groups or chairman of working parties or sub-working parties and sub-working groups and so on. So this is an ongoing work since several years. So we are naturally concerned and interested in these two events. Now, these two events have different objectives, of course. So the RA deals with the structure and the working methods of the study groups. And the WRC is about updating and revising the radio regulations. Radio regulations about spectrum and broadcasters are concerned also with spectrum. We use spectrum for broadcasting on terrestrial. We are concerned with spectrum on satellite as well for either our services for distribution or for contribution as well. So spectrum is a major subject for us. So these are the obvious reasons for which we are interested in participating and contributing to these two events. And what do you hope will be the outcomes of these two events? Okay, the RA as I said is about working methods. So we would like to be sure and make sure that the study group 6 which is the broadcasting, let's say group where the community of broadcasters gather and contribute will still have the good conditions to continue working and contributing to the development of the broadcasting industry worldwide. For the WRC, although we don't have an agenda item specifically related to the spectrum of broadcasters, however we have one important subject which is the preparation of the next World Radio Communication Conference where we know that already an agenda item is foreseen for the spectrum used by broadcasters. And we want to make sure that all the options are still open for the discussion at this next WRC in order to be sure that spectrum is secured for the usage by the broadcasters and the development of the broadcasting systems and services. Members that you represent of course. And I just wanted to ask you mentioned study groups. How important is the work of ITU study groups in terms of the resolutions and the studies and the reports etc. for the broadcasting industry? Well, we have two main areas of work. We have the production side and we have the distribution side. And in both areas the work and the outcome of the study groups is important. For the production side we have recommendations which are really respected by the manufacturers. They are followed by the manufacturers and they are followed by the broadcasters as well. So I can mention the recommendations, some historical recommendations about the high definition television and recently about the new generation audio enhanced audio systems. So these recommendations have really very good weight in the industry. So this is one example. For the distribution part, the new systems for distribution like the digital systems, they are described in the ITU recommendations and reports. And this gives them sort of let's say weight in the whole world. So not necessarily in Europe, although we are European broadcasting union, but the outcome will be used by all broadcasters in the world. So these are a few examples, but definitely one big outcome is the radio regulations of course. So it's not only the recommendations and reports, but also the impact of these recommendations and reports on the decisions of allocating frequencies. Very briefly, we were talking about before the length of the process of these conferences all amalgamated. We're talking about approximately six weeks in total at the end of the meeting. For all intents and purposes, of course, this is a very, very important decision being taken here, but for people on the outside, they might think this is an extremely lengthy process. Why does it take so long? Why is it so long? Well, this is a question that I had from my relatives saying that what is that conference that lasts for six weeks or something. But when I explain that thousands of delegates come and the work and the outcome is a revision of usage of frequencies worldwide with interests and sometimes completely conflictual interests between countries, between administrations, that requires first of all four years of preparation with, as I said, positions that could be completely conflictual. And then in these four weeks, let's talk about the WRC itself. The aim is to really get the positions close enough to get a consensus because the work of the ITU is based on the consensus, not on voting, whatever. So if it was voting, I think it would take much less time, much shorter time. But because of the principle of work at the ITU, it needs this time and sometimes it's not enough. And I know, I remember in some WRCs, that some nights are used fully, so 24-hour work on some subjects when they are really, really difficult to solve. Let's hope that there's consensus on every degree and on every point and that you have a very good set of few weeks here. But thank you very much for joining us in the studio and very good luck for the rest of the conference. It's my pleasure. Thank you very much. Thank you.