WRS-12 -- Opening Welcome Message by François Rancy, Director, Radiocommunication Bureau, ITU at ITU World Radiocommunication Seminar 2012, Geneva, Switzerland www.itu.int/ITU-R/go/WRS-12 Welcome to this 2012 edition of ITU World Radiocommunication Seminar. The Radio Regulations and the associated Rules of Procedure constitute the basis texts which enable Administrations throughout the world to obtain and maintain rights to use spectrum in such a way that they can operate their radiocommunication networks without causing and without suffering harmful interference. Your presence here in Geneva at this World Radiocommunication Seminar is the indication that you are playing an active role in this essential process which enables every citizen in the world to have access to information anywhere, anytime. Radiocommunications today are undergoing constant changes. These changes occur often in technologies and practices. This is why these changes need to be reflected in the international regulations and this is the purpose of the World Radiocommunication Conferences. They also need to be reflected in the ITU Radiocommunication Recommendations. And they also need to be reflected in the software tools that we are using in the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau to process in an efficient and reliable way the thousands of notices we receive from you every week. This number is actually increasing as a result of the massification of radiocommunication applications. There is therefore a need for the ITU Membership to be regularly updated in what is going on in all these fields. This is the purpose of this World Radicommunication Seminar. I sincerely hope that this 2012 edition of the ITU World Radiocommunication Seminar will be successful and profitable to you and I would like to thank you for helping the ITU to connect the world.

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