 We're here at Wiccate 2012 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, and I'm very pleased to be joined by Mr. Abdul Karim Somaila, who is Secretary-General of the African Telecommunications Union. Mr. Somaila, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to thank you for giving me some opportunity to speak on behalf of the African countries. I'd like to ask you, we are two days into the conference now. What are your first impressions of Wiccate 2012? Well, I think my impression is always the same. We think that if it's a conference, it will be happy and we think it will end in some way that's always a conference. So there's nothing so new, there's no surprise. It should be like all the conferences. What are the major challenges at the moment facing the African region in terms of telecommunications? I think the first challenge for us is always, now is the accessibility. Because we think our population, yes, the telecommunication penetration is growing, but it's still under. I mean that is the estimation that we need to be before 2015, what we call to reach the Millennium Challenge issue. And what do you think are the major concerns that you'd like to see addressed here, or that your members would like to see addressed here? Well, in this ITR, I think the major concern is for us. We think the current ITR has already did a lot of things in terms of innovation, in terms of conversation of technology. But it's time to update the ITR also in order to take account the new landscape of the ITR, of the new technology. And are you hopeful for the outcomes of this conference? Yes, of course we think that the outcome of the conference will be very good. And it should be for us what we intend to see, the accessibility of accessibility. So you're optimistic for the future of telecommunications in the African region? No, we were very, very, very optimistic because Africa is one of the most continent, of the continent where the penetration is always growing quickly, more than all other regions. So I think for us, the market is there and we believe that we're going to achieve a lot of things in terms of deployment because our goal now is the broadband issue. And what is the situation with regards to broadband in the region? Yes, the situation is on broadband we can say that it's very low because most of our population now what they have is always voice. The deployment on broadband is too low and this is a political issue that I think all African countries are going to look and change the strategy to push telecommunications operators to invest in the broadband. And what's your vision for the future in terms of telecommunications for Africa, do you think? I think our vision in telecommunication is always, as you said, is very good. We think that we're going to achieve because what we think will always liberalise our market and all the investors I invite to come and invest in Africa, we save the investment. We think that we liberalise, we create the conditions to invest in Africa. Smiley, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you very much.