Other applications were accessing educational services, news and current affairs. Internet Society of New Zealand chairman Roger Hicks says devices such as cellphones and televisions can now access the Internet but no security software exists for them. Information Technology Association executive director Tony Tait says while his organisation supports parental responsibility, such a requirement would place an unnecessary financial burden on consumers. Access via cable TV modems will have to tackle two-way traffic flow, switching and routing, and upstream noise. Packet radio networks are ideal for mobile Internet users.
Wireless cable has plenty of capacity and is cheap to set up.
U.N. Secretariat officials concede that the United Nations has failed to adjust to a rapidly changing information technology environment. The U.N. is, however, in the process of detailing an information strategy to be presented to the 52nd session of the General Assembly next year. SSP International Sports Betting, a British bookmaker, has accepted membership registrations from customers in Japan via the Internet, for gambling in baseball and sumo. The Japanese Penal Code, however, allows only a limited amount of gambling to keep public order. SSP transactions are handled in Britain and Belgium.