I'm sorry, but Narita being so high up makes me angry. I sleept on the floor there twice during my Japan visit during Christmas. All restaurants close super early, so between 17 and 9 the next day the only food you can get is from a convince store in the basement and transport that stops close to midnight so you can miss the last train because the plane was delayed.

Market pressure from consumers require that an overwhelming majority of consumers investigate what they are buying to an unreasonable level.

And companies with a lot of money will just pay to spread information or misinformation, making it even more difficult to make decisions as an informed consumer, even if you want to. Not just talking about commercials or PR statements, this goes all the way to paying research institutions sponsor money for specific projects.

Companies that don't fulfill a certain market certification can just create their own certification and market it to consumers. Showing off a shiny sticker that they are fulfilling what the market wants, while the company hasn't changed it's practices. Not to mention the constant problem with "oh no, our subcontractor didn't do their due diligence so our sub sub sub contractor that used child slave labor has now been cut off".

So something like 10% of the military and the government vs 90% of the military and a popular uprising... Think that would be skipping the civil war and just straig up overthrowing the leaders almost peacefully.

Guessing operational costs, procurement and deployment of current systems and development of the next one.

Reminder that it's not just the satellites and the chips that can receive the signal, but an entire network of ground stations.

5g is on a wavelength that is more disrupted by things like walls and buildings than 4g is.