I remember a few years ago I'd checked into satellite internet, seems that they've come down on the price a little.
http://www.hughesnet.com/residential-satellite-internet/plans.cfm
That download allowance would kill me though.
Yeah he VPN's into work allot over the weekends, the real problem wasn't that his local carrier didn't provide dial up but they didn't have a local number for an ISP server so every connect was a LD call for hours he work would cost major...$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ I had to come up with a better solution and Satellite was quite a bit cheaper.
