Actually, I always feel competition is nice, and is typicly good for the customer.
And BurstNET is one of the better providers, in my opion, of course its 39.95 a month but of course you get what you pay for with hosting, you'll receive cpanel3 as a web interface.
http://www.burst.net/hosting/linux.shtml Jedito, can I ask how you know exactly how much space and bandwidth he needs?