 Welcome to the ITU studio here in Shamal Sheikh in Egypt of the Global Symposium for Regulators 2023, GSR23, where I've got the great pleasure of being joined in the studio today by Mr Mohamed Naster, who is the managing director and CEO of Telecom Egypt. Mr Naster, welcome to the studio. Thank you, Max, for having me here. Well, it's our absolute pleasure. So I wanted to start off by asking you a little bit about the sponsorship of this event, which is by Wee. And Wee, you'll tell me a little bit about the branding in a minute, but essentially you are the platinum sponsors, which means that you have supported the event in the most generous way, and we're very grateful for that. Why is this event important to you? Telecom Egypt is here in Egypt working in telecommunication and providing telecommunication service for the Egyptian community for more than 165 years. So we've been providing telecommunication from its start as telegraph and moving to coaxial cables and all types of communications, until we became now branded Wee for the consumer business, but we still work on Telecom Egypt for the international arena, providing telecommunication service for the global and subsea cables. So Telecom Egypt is proud to have GSR here in Shamal Sheikh, and we are fully supporting the regulator and the community of the regulators to be here having this symposium. And the name Wee is a very inclusive name, so obviously you're looking to get a lot of people involved. It's something which I think in terms of the actual symposium itself is very important in terms of connectivity and in terms of meaningful connectivity. I want to ask you, what is the landscape like for connectivity here in Egypt at the moment? Okay, so we are connecting more than 80% of the Egyptian community for fixed broadband as Wee, and we provide mobile services as well for more than 100% of the people who are using the four operators. Telecom Egypt have like 12 million of customers. We came forth as a market, but we are moving aggressive to provide unified services for fixed and mobile as well. So the government supporting the non-connected people, which is one of the things that I heard in the morning sessions about the connecting and unconnected, and decent life initiatives is one of the major projects that's connecting the villages and rural areas in Egypt. Telecom Egypt is proud to provide fiber to the home to all those villages, and we are working hand in hand with government to support those villages to be connected. Also, we are providing for them, for G networks to connect to them on the mobile as well. So connecting the unconnected is part of the major regulatory challenges, and we are happy also to be to be part of this. And what do you hope will be some of the outcomes from this event? It's a connected world. So regulations in one country now after the COVID can affect communication is about two people connecting together. So you can be connected in the same country or from different countries connecting to internet is always from the global. So regulations in different countries can affect each other. Having a collaborative models of regulatory between the different regulators will help smooth communication. So I would like the outcome is to have as much as possible. I cannot say 100% unified regulations, but at least we have the basics itself of the new technologies. AI is an important thing and it's a high point which many people are afraid of. Maybe many people are supporting, expecting a lot. Regulation about the usage of AI is important. So I would like to see an outcome of somehow collaborative unified regulations between the different regulators comes from this symposium, which will help providers like Telecom Egypt to provide services in different countries as well, because telecommunity is part of its business is to provide connectivity globally. So cross-border data between country to country is important for us to have a unified regulatory. And what you hope the future will be like here for telecom in Egypt? I see everyone is connected. We have a young population and 35% of the population is under the age of 15, which means that we have a future. I would like to see all those younger generations connected and contributing to the digital community at that time. So we would like to prepare for them the future to be a technology future. Well, thank you very much for joining us in this studio today, Mr Nasser. Thank you, Max. Excellent to meet you and we look forward to catching up with you again in the near future. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. I appreciate your time. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you very much for tuning in to this particular interview. We've got plenty more over the next few days here at GSR23 and we're also running these interviews as podcast to on our SoundCloud channel or wherever you get your podcasts. And for more information, please visit our website at www.itu.int. Thank you very much.