Such services are not, in general, very profitable for a telecommunications company. In this model, Internet access between universities in Australia followed, to some extent, the cooperative model. These NSPs then, in turn, peer with Regional Internet Service Providers . Telstra Corporation's permanent Internet service is offered as its Big Pond Direct service.
Pricing is based on a installtion charge, a fixed monthly charge plus a data volume charge.
Bit rates up to 72kbps were available. The original AARNet was based on this service. For example, a Telstra ISDN service can dedicate one or more B Channels as a permanently available data link, see later. Frame Relay services. Asynchronous Transfer Mode services.