 Welcome to Shamal Sheikh in Egypt to the ITU studio here, where I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today by Dr. Agra Sheena Ali-Naris, who is the vice chair for the Radio Communication Assembly 2019, RA19, and is also here for the World Radio Communication Conference 2019. Dr. Minaris, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much. It's a great pleasure for me to be here with you. Now, tell us a little bit about the Radio Communication Assembly. We're here on the last day actually of the Radio Communication Assembly and are about to move into the following week of WRC. What's been happening at the Radio Communication Assembly? Yes, the RA has very important outputs because it deals with how the study groups will work during this next cycle and how will be the preparation for the next WRC. And we are going to approve a very important recommendation that is recommendation M1036 that is related to flex arrangement for IMT. Now, you're here also representing the Brazilian delegation, you're head of the Brazilian delegation here for WRC and RA. I just wanted to ask you what are you hoping are going to be some of the topics that are going to be covered here over the next five weeks? Well, when we work with radio communications, it's a great pleasure to be in a WRC because it's like a World Cup for us. And there are so many important subjects in this WRC because we are dealing with future radio communications. And what we decide here will be implemented maybe in one year, but maybe in 10, 20 years. And the hot topics are related for example with agenda item 1.13 that is spectrum in millimeter wave for IMT. We have 1.14 that is related with HABS, high altitude platform systems, 1.5 that is Earth Stations Emotion, agenda item 7A that is related to the mega constellations known just so satellites. And there are many other very important topics that usually we separate. All topics are important, but there are some topics that are more popular. It's a better way to say because all topics are very important. I was going to say how is that going to affect the man in the street let's say? Well, for example 1.13 spectrum for IMT 2020. So in my opinion the real 5G will happen when we are going to deploy 5G with millimeter wave because we are going to have hundreds of megahertz available per operator. And with this the user will experience throughputs like gigabits per second. And with this more spectrum is needed. And apart from speed that's going to give them possibilities for content etc. to be delivered to their phones, for AI etc. Is that the hope? Exactly. And we need spectrum to deploy all users cases for 5G and spectrum is necessary for all services. That's why we need more spectrum for satellite operations for example. That's why we have for example an agenda item that is in reality an issue 919 where we are adding additional 1Ghz for a fixed satellite service. At least this is the proposal. And if this succeeded to be very important for the satellite sector because there is a tendency to use QNV bands to connect to the satellites through the gateways. And use KE bands for a final user. So it's very important to have more spectrum for all services and to assure that all current services and future deployment of the radio communication service will use spectrum without harmful interference. This is our objective. So the interference is obviously very important. What about high altitude platform systems, HAPS, which you mentioned before? Perhaps to the uninitiated you could demystify that a little bit and tell us why they're important. Well almost 50% of the population worldwide do not access the internet. And the idea to have HAPS is to enable or at least to give an opportunity for new coverage in under-seventeenth areas. So we have new technologies related to solar batteries with airplane. So HAPS can be deployed with a fair price, fair investment and can provide coverage in this kind of areas where you do not have any kind of deployment from the terrestrial network. So this is another possibility. And the objective is to have harmonized solutions worldwide or at least in the region level because it's very important to have solutions that many countries can deploy the same solution so that with this the price of the coasts of the seps will decrease. Yesterday it was a UN day. We were talking about global cooperation and why global cooperation is important. I wanted to ask you about perhaps in terms of your hopes for this conference, for WRC in particular, for Brazil and how some of the outcomes may help you and may help Brazil to be connected. Well, Brazil follows recommendations and reports of I2R as a baseline to its regulation, to its national regulation. So all outcomes from WRC will be reflected in our regulations in maybe one, two, three years. So it's very important for us to have the output from WRC in a balanced and fair way because this is a way that we can make or provide in a regulation perspective new solutions to the markets. Let the market decide if it will use one or other technology. So the role of I2R and the WRC is very important to assure new technological advances guarantee the protection of existing services. And for that you need global cooperation, you need consensus here of all the countries that have gathered here from around the world. For sure, the consensus building here in I2R is very important. When you have a decision, it guarantees that all administrations, if it's deploying the radio rigs accordingly, it will protect the operations in the other country so that everyone can use the spectrum in an efficient way with equal rights playing the same game rules. It's very important. Well, let's hope that you get the results that you are very much hoping for, I'm sure, and that will benefit the rest of the globe. But in the meantime, thank you very much for joining us in the studio and hopefully we'll catch up with you again at some stage in the near future. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.