Why no article with "service" and "access"

Solution 1:

But it is the way it is just because it is the way it is. You can try to explain it away, but all of it would be justification in hindsight, as demonstrated by the fact that the exact same thing or concept can be uncountable in one language, but countable in another. Service, information, software, cheese — you name it.

There is no reason for "room service" to be "room service" and not "room services", or "purple car", or "khabarovski kray" — other than that out of these, "room service" is the one native speakers of English actually say. Likewise, air conditioning is not uncountable; much rather, it is uncountable in English, and it is uncountable in English at this moment in time.

And of course there is no reason for articles to exist in the first place. Now that we happen to use them, we can try to justify it by coming up with all kinds of reasons that make us feel all warm inside, but the fact of the matter is that you only started using articles because you heard your mother do it. But billions of mothers never used them, and their children are none the colder inside for it.

So by all means do notice that tree outside your window.