AT&T launches shared data plan on August 23

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(CNET) A few weeks ago, AT&T announced its intentions to follow Verizon with a new model of selling customers a pool of mobile data they can access across multiple devices. Today, AT&T stamps a date on the launch.

Starting August 23, AT&T customers can opt into the Mobile Share data plan, which will grant access from 1GB to 20GB per person or group. In addition to the per-GB per month cost, Mobile Share plans charge an access fee per device, and see unlimited texts and voice minutes. The plans support as many as 10 devices per account.

Unlike Verizon's pioneering Share Everything plan, AT&T customers aren't required to sign on to the new plans when they upgrade their plans or sign new contracts.

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You can calculate your data needs on AT&T's mobile data calculator. For more details, read our full rundown of AT&T's Mobile Share plans here.

This article first appeared on CNET.

[hypnotoad72]

Give us back the welfare money, AT&T...

http://www.ctj.org/html/layoffs.htm

And these shared data plans will only mean larger bills for most. Whether or not they are consciously thinking or inferring from the marketed drivel is irrelevant; you don't intentionally mislead people for personal profit. Unless you think acting unethical or immoral is okay, but then I would have a few choice words to say about that as well.