switched to vodafone. Seems to be working ok so far, but they did screw me on that bonus data. Good thing I took some screen caps of the chat promising that the data would be honored if I activated later.
It is confusing but the bonus data has always been from the first recharge of that prepaid plan (i.e. in a year). It's still good value without it though. But by this time next year there might be a Boost offer to move back to. 😁
if I make it last 10 months it'll only cost me 15 bucks a month with 22 gig of data. Really not bad. test will be how good that roaming onto optus works when I go out into the country.