De-activate broadband when abroad for a long time

Hi all,
I have the opportunity of spending between 3 to 6 months abroad and have tried to find out if BT offers a service whereby the broadband can be de-activated and then re-activated by phone.
In France Orange has a service just like that for holiday homes : it includes the disconnection of the phone line and it does NOT charge extra for it.
Here in the UK BT has told me that it would cost 30 GBP to de-activate the broadband by an engineer at the exchange and that reconnection would be free. 
But the telephone line (and rental) remains or I loose my number if I cancel  the account all together.
Does anybody know a workaround or another ISP that offers such a service??
Many thanks

As others have said, no UK provider offers this service. 
To do so would mean keeping a number active for when the user wanted it back, which would mean retaining the line's connection at the exchange, but without being able to charge for it.
Also, if the user had Infinty broadband it would cause another issue because fibre cabinets only allow a set number of connections and a connection would again have to be retained for free, potentially denying paying customers the chance to upgrade.
For those reasons this sort of feature is never likely to happen in the UK.

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    I hope this helps someone to explain what my problem is & the appropriate solution.  I have a little more than 12,000 songs in my library in case that makes a difference.  Should I just delete the files with he "error cloud"?  All of the songs appear to be still in the cloud because they are available for download to my phone.

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