John Hickenlooper Quotes
Infrastructure is more than laying new roads and expanding transit: it's running the fiber and deploying new technologies for reliable, affordable Internet in every part of the state.
Hickenlooper, John. "2018 State of the State Address." State of Colorado, 11 Jan. 2018.
The first non-PRI President in over 70 years. This was one of Fox’s greatest achievements. Internet connectivity in every school at the time had not yet been achieved in the United States.
At the time, the few private companies that provided American Internet service did not want to increase the bandwidth speeds to homes. Those businesses who needed more bandwidth paid dearly for it, but consumers could not afford those rates. With fiber optics, it cost no more to provide higher bandwidth than lower. But then the Internet providers would not be able to make the huge profit margins on the corporate accounts. In much of Europe, however, the Government rules and regulations required a higher standard of performance for the public in general. In the US, the Government did not want to regulate the performance standards of the private sector with respect to the Internet. Clinton argued that the problem should be solved by the private sector, but if they could or did not, he argued that government should set the rules to solve the problem. The software and hardware companies were driving American digital technology forward, but the few communications company were working to maintain the status quo on bandwidth.
Korea, Finland and other nations which have faster Internet speeds at much less cost are those countries where there are many Internet Service Providers competing. In America there were generally three—the telephone company, the Cable TV, company and a wireless service. In Finland however, there are 15 who compete using the same lines to the home. They all made money, but a much lower profit percentage than in America.
Computer utilization and ownership gap between segments of America
The Senator was referring to the difficulty that governments have in censoring and controlling information on the Internet.
John Wright Hickenlooper Jr. is an American politician, businessman, and geologist serving as the junior United States Senator from Colorado since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Hickenlooper was mayor of Denver from 2003 to 2011 and governor of Colorado from 2011 to 2019.
