Advice on ISP provision service contracts please!

[Boerewors]

My wireless ISP just provided me with some packages for internet provision, unfortunately he is also the only provider I can use since he is providing the wireless connection.

The question is, is this legal?

All the packages he has given me to choose from are based on a 12 month contract. In other words, to continue getting a service from him I must sign a 12 month contract for the data package. The contract also states that if I cancel the contract then I must pay the difference of the contract. In other words: if after 2 months I move to another town where he cannot provide me with internet, or if by some miracle Telskelm does set up ADSL in my town I have to pay back 10 months worth of subscription, or keep paying the monthly cost even though I am not using his service any more.

Is this legal? Can he do this to me?

Please, your advice is needed!

 

[Anthro]

The terminology is similar to MTN /Vodacom contract packages, unfortunately if that is part of the TOC and you decide to go with them, you will have to deal with the consequences.
Have you tried telling them that you are not able to sign this kind of contract, and that you will leave if this is implemented ..?
If they're desperate enough to keep you as a client, I am sure they will budge
Is it a small town WISP ? -- this probably means no alternatives.. :'( ?

 

[Boerewors]

Exactly the last bit, small town WISP, no other alternatives.

 

[Anthro]

Maybe post the town, a user might have another alternative.
Pity about the small town money mongers..