 We're here at ITU Telecom World 2019 in Budapest, Hungary and I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Professor Umar Gaba Dambatta, who is the Executive Vice-Chairman and CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission. Professor Dambatta, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much, Max. It's a pleasure to be here. Great to see you. Great to see you too. Now, I'd like to start off, we'll talk about innovating together, innovation that matters. It's the theme of this year's event. What makes connectivity meaningful and why is it so important, do you think? Well, connectivity is meaningful and necessary for the delivery of services. If connectivity is not available, it's not accessible, then the services that we intend to render as results, opportunities, they will not be there, people will not be connected, people will not have access to services that will in turn transform their lives. That will in turn lead to what we call social and economic transformation of economies and societies. In terms of innovative policy, what single factor or innovative policy can best accelerate digital transformation in your opinion? Well, let us look at digital transformation. What are the exciting opportunities of digital transformation? Improvement of learning, putting in place a stain and shared prosperity, creating a competitive and innovative economy. The list is endless, facilitating a more open, mobile and cohesive society. How do you do all this? How do you reach out to the millions of people who are yearning to benefit from these opportunities? This can be achieved through the deployment of infrastructure. By addressing the infrastructure deficits in our individual countries, we can bring all these opportunities to the steps of our citizens and that is what we are doing in Nigeria. And how is Nigeria working towards an inclusive digital economy? We are doing this by ensuring we deploy, like I said, the necessary infrastructure. The country, the entire country has been divided into seven zones, as I'm talking to you. Each zone has been assigned an infrastructure company to deploy broadband infrastructure. The idea is to make wireless and fixed broadband infrastructure ubiquitous. This, if we can do, we hope, will lead to the rollout of broadband services that will in turn, in fact, positively on citizens' transformation socially and economically. And what about 5G? What progress is Nigeria making in 5G deployment? And what are the challenges and opportunities linked to that? We are, like all countries, trying to roll out proof-of-concept trials. We don't want to be caught unprepared when eventually 5G is with us. To do that, we need to involve the security agencies and get the permission of the federal government to start the proof-of-concept. In preparation for doing this, we have resolved some spectra, 26, 38, and 42 gigahertz. And the idea is to do a trial with a view to ascertaining the signal strengths in locations that will provide 5G services. The particular usage scenario we're interested in is enhanced broadband services. Among the other, the three scenarios. The reason for this is we feel broadband can be used to transform other sectors of the economy, transform governance. And therefore, by targeting this key sectors of the economy, we will be transforming the entire country. Many people here, I'm sure, will wholeheartedly agree with you. I wanted to ask you, what's the value for you of attending events such as ITU Telecom World? As always, Max, we attend ITU Telecom World in order to benefit from global best practices in order to find out what is going on in other economies, to borrow from their experiences, and also share ideas on how we deploy services in the area of emerging technologies, 5G, Internet of Things. Coming here, we'll enrich our experience on how best we're going to do this. Well, thank you very much for sharing your insights with us. And we look forward to catching up with you again, as we have done on numerous occasions again in the future. Thanks a lot very much. It's always a pleasure to talk to you, Max. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.