Examples are ordinary telephone conversations, teleshopping, telebanking or video conferencing services, all of which are communications of an essentially private kind.
I am aware of older people being denied access to telebanking or other modern innovations.
There is the whole area of interactive services such as teleshopping, telebanking, and burglar alarms.
Many feel that such losses are not compensated for adequately by some of the developments in telebanking.
No doubt these will take time to develop fully; but we should not regard burglar alarms, meter readings, even telebanking and teleshopping, as the limit of their potential.
For example, the applicants for the pilot cable licences will be required to indicate what interactive services they would provide—services such as telebanking, teleshopping, and so on.
