We need 5G, so let’s heed the experts

The only problem is the companies that bought 4G at world-record prices – per megahertz per capita, second only to Hong Kong – are mired in debt. True has officially told the government it is unable to partake [in a 5G auction] and Advanced Info Service has unofficially said the same.
Yet when the government wanted to soften the terms for these companies, activists, academics and civil-society organisations cried foul.
Few academics and civil-society organisations have ever run a business. They have their heads full of theory but don’t know how hard it is to earn and increase profits year in, year out to meet shareholders’ expectations in terms of dividends.
Who will benefit from 5G? Everybody, especially Thailand as a country. And yet these people still cry foul. It makes you wonder.
Alf Haupt

Violence likely rising along with materialism

Re: “Country shocked as rejected men resort to murder”, News, June 6.
Thirty years ago there didn’t seem to be quite as many incidents of lethal violence as we’re seeing now. It can’t be simply put down to the growth of Internet communication, which has offered better reporting, because back then newspapers could afford widespread networks of contacts, correspondents and stringers who penetrated every corner of the country.
Perhaps one explanation could be in the growth of materialism and the greateravailability of consumer goods. I believe the issue of irresponsible parenting has always been there, but that, with more distractions these days, there’s been a diminishing of normal societal controls.
I think the problems running rampant through the monkhood these days could be indicative of that, or a consequence.
Dexlowe
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