The resulting high tariffs charged by the telecommunications organizations for, and the shortage of, the basic infrastructure provided by these organizations over which liberalized services might be offered by third parties have delayed widespread development of high-speed corporate networks, remote accessing of databases by both business and residential users and the deployment of innovative services such as telebanking, distance learning, computer-aided marketing, etc. (See communication to the European Parliament and the Council of 25 October 1994 'Green Paper on the liberalization of telecommunications infrastructure and cable television networks:
Visoke tarife, ki iz tega izhajajo in jih zaračunavajo telekomunikacijske organizacije za osnovno infrastrukturo, ki jo zagotavljajo te organizacije in po kateri tretje osebe lahko ponujajo liberalizirane storitve, ter pomanjkanje te infrastrukture so povzročili zamude pri obsežnem razvoju hitrih podjetniških omrežij, daljinskem dostopu podjetij in fizičnih oseb do podatkovnih baz in pri uporabi inovativnih storitev, kakor so daljinsko bančništvo, učenje na daljavo, računalniško podprto trženje itd. (glej sporočilo Komisije Evropskemu parlamentu in Svetu z dne 25. oktobra 1994 "Zelena knjiga o liberalizaciji telekomunikacijske infrastrukture in omrežij kabelske televizije: