Mr Nissim BENMAYOR Director, Certification Directorate, Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks We would like to thank the members of the Council, the Secretary General, the Deputy Secretary General, the Directors of the Bureaux, the members of the RRB and the staff of the ITU for the outstanding work done during the last four years, in order to achieve the objec-tives set at the Antalya Plenipotentiary Conference. Ten years after liberalization, the telecommunications market in Greece has acquired remarkable dynamics with a high level of maturity and a competitive envi-ronment. The operators continue to invest in upgrad-ing and expanding networks in order to offer a range Mr. Chairman, of technology advanced and converged services. Honourable Ministers, New Generation Access Networks and digital dividend deployment are the major components moving Greece at the forefront of the digital world opening new op-portunities Distinguished Heads and Members of Delegations, Mr. Secretary-General, for sustainable economic growth, educa-tion, health, environment, commerce, entertainment Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Chairman, first, let me congratulate you on your election as Chairman of this Conference and your excellent leadership. and social networking. Greece is strongly working on the implementation of the above priorities by creating a new digital era for the country. In this context the objec-tives and policy priorities of Greece for the years to come are to create a digital added value. By this we mean fur-ther development of broadband services and products nationwide and effective spectrum use in view of the digital dividend. All the above strategic choices will sub-stantially affect the position of Greece in the interna-tional I am deeply honoured to have the privilege of address-ing scene of an emerging Global Information Society. this Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication Union, taking place in the beauti-ful In Greece broadband penetration is rising stead-ily city of Guadalajara. and by the end of 2009 it had reached 1,916,630 lines, i.e. a penetration rate of 17%. Additionally, by the end of 2009, active mobile telephone users reached 14,090,504, i.e. a penetration rate of 125.7%. The mo-bile Greece being one of the founding members of the ITU holds great belief in its role in the development of a global telecommunications and information society and has always been committed to the international cooperation put forward by the Union to address in-formation telephony companies cover today almost 100% of the Greek territory, despite the difficulties imposed by the terrain morphology. Moreover, mobile broadband reached 220.000 users. technology and telecommunication related challenges of our time. 132