 We are here at the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2014 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and I have got the great pleasure of being with Mr Parouk van Persie who is Director-General of the National Communications Authority of Ghana. Mr Van Persie, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you for having me. I would like to start off by talking about the conference here that we are at, the World Telecommunication Development Conference once every four years is a very important conference. We are now in the second week of it and pretty much coming up towards the end what has stood out from this conference for you. Well, thanks very much Max. Surely this has been a very good conference and I must begin by thanking the host country, the United Arab Emirates for putting together such a wonderful conference, the facilities put at our disposal are excellent and also of course the ITU for all the organizational work that has come into it. From my end, from what I said, this is a very first for me, been only three years in the job so this is my very first WTDC. And I must say that of course the preparatory work leading up to it is all what is culminated in the success that we are having today. I had the privilege of chairing the Africa Meeting or the RPM with the final being in Lusaka and that obviously prepared Africa quite readily for making the contributions that we have made at this event. So far the highlights, of course we are all seeing the trend of telecommunications in the world today, where we are headed, broadband, obviously the theme for this conference is very apt and that broadband is the next agenda. In my country we have reached our bounds in voice penetration, probably around 110 percent of voice penetration now. Our next challenge is data and how we grow data. We have done remarkably well over the last couple of years. Five years ago you could talk data penetration of below five percent. Today we are talking something in the region of 25, 30 percent and that's been enabled by the handheld devices, the advent of 3G. So broadband growth in Ghana is very promising. In the last couple of years also we have licensed three operators in BWA, Broadband Wireless Access, to provide 4G services and we think that that's all going to help grow the broadband industry in Ghana tremendously. So there's some great opportunities there in Ghana. What are the particular challenges that you're facing? Well the challenges continue to be infrastructure, power and that's what most of the operators complain about. But thankfully the government is doing quite a bit about that and we expect to have stable power in the coming years. There's also the cost of infrastructure and of course being where we are now and being late and transient to it. We're turning to depend more on wireless than fibre of course because the reach and the timeliness of it is better than getting through the issues of our fibre. So those remain some challenges but the challenges that are not unsurmountable. We are doing well and with the cooperation of the operators to get beyond all of these difficulties and we think that so far we are so good. And what do you hope will come from this conference? Well obviously this will set the agenda for the next four years and Africa intends to play within that scope very forcefully and like I have identified our challenge mainly is in the area of data now and we expect that we can grow that successfully over the years. My own country has done its fair bit in that regard and in the last couple of years we've seen growth rates which are quite impressive and obviously the enabling environment that has been provided by government in providing infrastructure in collaboration with the operators. We've done the submarine fibre links around the country and all of that we expect to push a broadband delivery further. We've also obviously put some assistance from that to our neighbouring land-lord countries who don't have submarine cable landers and we're transmitting fibre all the way to the border so they can also tap into that. Well thank you so much Mr Van Persie for being with us today and I wish you all the very best in terms of connectivity for Ghana and for the future. Thank you very much, thank you. And thank you for watching too.