HE the Minister of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Dr Hessa Sultan al-Jaber is leading Qatar’s delegation at the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) World Radio-communication Conference (WRC), which opens in Geneva today. The conference will run until November 27.
The Qatari delegation includes representatives from Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA), Ministry of Interior, Qatari Armed Forces, Qatar Media Corporation, and Qatar Satellite Company (Es’hailSat), along with a delegation led by Qatar’s Permanent Representative to the UN and other organisations in Geneva Ambassador Faisal bin Abdullah al-Henzab.
The ITU organises the World Radiocommunication Conference every four years to review and revise radio regulations, the international treaty governing the use of the radio-frequency spectrum and the geostationary-satellite, and non-geostationary-satellite orbits.
Revisions are made on the basis of an agenda determined by the ITU Council, which takes into account recommendations made by previous WRCs.
The general scope of the agenda of WRC is established four to six years in advance with the final agenda set by the ITU Council two years before the conference with the concurrence of a majority of member states.
Under the terms of the ITU constitution, a WRC can revise the radio regulations and any associated frequency assignment and allotment plans, address any radio-communication matter of worldwide character, instruct the radio regulations board and the radio-communication bureau and review their activities, and determine questions for study by the Radio-communication Assembly and its study groups in preparation for future radio-communication
conferences.