Access to uni hosts is the only service provided at this stage. Gets us out from under having to worry about the age of the end user. Bond Students are allocated an IP address that provides access through the firewall to internal resources. Students buy time in 50 hour blocks. If the student is teaching they have a staff dial-in account.
Some schools treat their PhD students as staff anyway.
If not, they are treated as students, and pay for an ISP account. Curtin Remote Access is a self help service. The payment simply pays for downloaded traffic and service maintenance. It does NOT pay for technical assistance and the support mechanisms necessary for maintaining a help desk. We charge both staff and students by the hour for modem use to recover costs of the dial-in service.