Bill Clinton Quotes
It should bother you that the Internet connections in South Korea average more than 4 times as fast as America’s.
William Clinton, 42nd President of the United States (Democrat, AR), Statement at the Aspen Ideas Festival, 2011
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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
One irony of this statement is that the Internet is, more so than any other world institution and service, ungoverned and operates under a system of voluntary compliance. However, most of the people who participate in the leadership and those with most influence are from the industrialized democracies and not the third world or former colonial powers. But these unofficial individuals have much more influence on the Internet that does the United States President or the British Prime Minister.
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.
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton was previously Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, and the Arkansas Attorney General from 1977 to 1979. Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III – he changed to his stepfather's name at age 15.
