Among the contenders AT&T intends to beat the other competitors, by luring the consumers with their newly launched data plans.

Verizon recently started taking orders for iPhone 4. This will certainly have an impact on the smartphone user market.

AT&T announced a generous data plan for their current and future Data Pro plus plan users, so that they don’t switch from AT&T to Verizon.

The new data plan
As per the new plan, the Data Pro plus plan users who pay $25 for 2GB data and $20 for tethering(per month) will simply get extra data usage of 2GB, at free of cost.

Reportedly, the mobile carrier has been sued for charging extra to the customers, who access data through Apple iPhones and iPads.

“AT&T is facing a federal class-action suit alleging that it systematically overstates the amount of data used on each data transaction involving an iPhone or iPad,” informed a source.

Patrick Hendricks filed the suit against the firm and said that a consulting firm he hired, found that the company overstated the data usage rate by 7 to 300 percent, for the iPhone and iPad users.

Charges against AT&T

It was learnt that Verizon would be offering its customers unlimited data usage plan, through an ‘unadvertised loophole’, now even AT&T has started providing its existing users having limited data usage plans with the unlimited package, so that they don’t run to Verizon.

An AT&T customer Jose Argumedo, who lives in Brentwood, N.Y., said that after a call to the AT&T customer care recently, he was switched on to the unlimited plan.