Summer Broadband for a Teacher

A friend of mine teaches at a private school (where they have broadband) and only lives 'at home' for holidays and a few weekends.

He really wants to move off dial-up and I've been trying to help him out but I haven't found anything that would fit his need to have a limited time contract but without costing too much.

The options I've considered so far are:

* A very low monthly fee - maybe with a charge for bandwidth (12 month contract)
* Set up a short-term contract each summer, paying a connection fee each time
* Some kind of 'pause' - pay activation once then pay for packages as and when (does this kind of thing even exist?)

I'm open to any other suggestions, and to any idea of the contracts. So far the total cost over the summer has been pretty high so any suggestions of packages would be great.

Thanks,

All Work

Assuming your friend is already paying BT line rental.

For the sake of argument say he spends

Depending on his usage when he is at home, Newnet Home Lite 12 may fit, and they are an excellent ISP. On the annual contract (

I don't think there's a stopping fee, Newnet have a low activation fee (30 quid) so 3 months at

Many of the ISPs charging more than

What is the current wholesale cease charge ? The activation is

From here.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3048-entanet-to-absorb-bt-cease-fee.html

The new charge by BT Wholesale for ceasing an ADSL line at

it subsequently went away ?
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3075-openreach-announces-withdrawal-of-termination-charges.html

That announcement was for a 1 month suspension not a withdrawal.

I've not seen any update to it however so I do not know whether BT have updated their position on the matter as yet.

the current Wholesale price list quotes 0.00 :-

Temporary price reduction: All end user ceases completed from 10th May 2007until further notice will have a charge of