Still got good coverage and whatnot? I basically refused to get back on Telstra after I got off them, but when my partner started paying all the bills he eventually switched us back to Telstra as we kept losing coverage when we went out to the middle of nowhere to visit rellies.

Weird that you can't share data, think it was earlier this year or perhaps sometime last year that my partner switched us onto some plan so we could share data.

That prepaid for a year thing sounds kind of useful, I've got kids approaching the ages of wanting phones (middle child especially probably so she can gossip with her friends whenever instead of having to wait til everyone is home or otherwise somewhere with wifi so their messaging apps work!) and I really, really, really hate Telstra's monumentally stupid no rollover thing.