Ferdi Magellan

@humanspiral @AmbiguousProps Japan is truely weird. Not really, it’s just different.

For most of post-war Japan the LDP has held government solely or in coalition. There isn’t one opposition party but many, often with opposing ideologies. Finding the numbers to form a coalition seems unlikely.

The one party state isn’t necessarily as undemocratic as we might think. The Japanese are more likely to seek consensus behind the scenes. The political parties seem to change leaders a lot.

A minority government isn’t unheard of but it would constrain their ability to get legislation through.

@Taleya Yeah, that’s what I’ve learned. Shitty infrastructure and no intention to improve it.

@Taleya
The Apple Store told me the telcos would be unlikely to upgrade 4g and would probably redeploy the 3G resources to 5G.

My phone does support VoLTE but the Optus infrastructure is crap. It used to drop to 3G calls but no longer. Now it just drops out completely.

I guess it doesn’t matter now because the telcos have realised half of rural Australia would be left with no service and that would be very bad.

@Taleya do you mean like for people in the country where all the calls drop to 3G, and in the city dead zones?

@Taleya

How isn’t it?

@vividspecter @Baku

It was suggested to me that they have no intention of deploying old 3G resources to 4G. They will go straight to 5G which is why our 4G phones will no longer work.

They have been sending endless messages that I have to buy a new phone but refuse to say why.

@hitmyspot @Baku

I have a 4G phone. #Optus has been telling me for months it will no longer work when they switch 3G off.

They won’t tell me why though.