[haydnwalker]

Is your mate still in a 12month contract with BT Broadband?

If this is the case then BT as part of their Terms and Conditions state that they will charge the remaining contract term costs (as most ISPs do!)

They may allow multiple payments to settle the account but I doubt they would allow the monthly payments to continue as usual.

That is between BT and your mate though.

BT won't collect their equipment because even if it was "given" it was paid for by the customer as part of the monthly payments, and so your mate owns the equipment and some of the payment will recoup the cost of that equipment