 Welcome to WRC 19, the World Radio Communication Conference here in Shamashheikh in Egypt. We are very pleased to be joined this morning by engineer Yusuf Albalushi, who is the Vice President of Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Oman. Engineer Albalushi, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much and thanks for you to give me this chance and this interview to highlight some of the WRC issues related to my country. So please, let's start talking about the conference WRC 19. This is not your first WRC, I think the first one you attended here was in 2007 and that was in Geneva of course, prior to this. But I just wanted to ask you, why is this particular event important? It's once every four years, a lot of concentration of topics being discussed here. What are the most important for you? At my point of view, that all the WRC conferences are important. But if you concentrate or focus on the WRC 19, we are, this is in 2019 where there are very fast deployment of 5G networks worldwide. So most of the regional groups, they are looking for new spectrum for 5G to serve their people with better connectivity. As you are aware that 5G will play a very important role in terms of investment and new technology, new applications and will improve also the, a lot of applications in the country like smart cities, e-government, e-commerce, e-educations, it will be very important. For us, the WRC is very important this year in 2019 because our government decided to have our own satellite network. So we already filed our network to ITU and we fulfilled with ITU requirements and we are in the coordination process with different administrations. So this will be very important for us to follow those regulatory aspects of the satellite networks. So it will be really very important for us. Can I ask you, what does the satellite and in fact telecommunications in general landscape look like for the Sultanate of Oman? As I mentioned, now we decided to launch our own satellite networks. We currently licensed two operators also, by the beginning of this year the third operator will launch services in the country. We are in a country where we, with large area as you are aware, Sultanate of Oman and we are facing a lot of terrain difficulties, country with huge area and with a lot of mountains and the population is scattered in different, with small houses. So provision of telecom sector is cost us too much in the country. So we are now targeting to reach our target for the broadband services in the country by satellite. At the same time, one of the also our goal in WRC, we supporting the new technology which calls high altitude platforms which is very important for us because we are, as Oman country, suffering from the climate change as in the world, especially in Oman because we are in the course of the Indian Ocean where we suffer a lot of cyclones. So we believe that the satellite communication as well as the hubs and new technology will help us so much to serve our people with different telecommunication services. That's great. Now when this conference finishes, we're in now essentially the run up towards the end, what do you hope will have been achieved? What do you hope will be some of the major outcomes from this? As I mentioned to you that 5G is moving very fast in the world. So one of the important agenda items of the conference is 1.13. We are looking for extra spectrum as I mentioned to you that 5G is the better connectivity. 5G is fast speed, latency, so you need a lot of spectrum. There will be big demand on that one with new applications. But the problem with 1.13 is still discussion is running and one of the difficulties we are facing in some countries, they are trying to impose some restrictions and we believe those restrictions will limit the usage of spectrum in the region and worldwide. So hopefully this problem will be solved and we're looking for the new spectrum for 5G as well as we are, as I mentioned to you that we are for our satellite communication, we are following also the regulatory matters of the satellite services. Hopefully this will simplify our life in the future. Let's hope so and we wish you the very best of luck for the end of this conference and for the future as well. And thank you for joining us in the studio engineer Al-Balushi. Thank you. Thank you very much.