AT&T might offer a shared data plan

With many mobile devices these days sporting mobile data connectivity, it makes perfect sense for users to be more prudent with the kind of plans they sign up for with mobile carriers. After all, it isn’t exactly the best of times at the moment, hence anything that would help you stretch your dollar would go some way in keeping that smile on your face (and device connected to the Internet). Ralph de la Vega, the bigwig for AT&T Mobility, has just dropped hints recently that AT&T is actively working on a shared data plan which would allow one to split a single data bucket among multiple devices.

This concept is not new at all, since Rogers in Canada pioneered it several months ago, but there is no word from AT&T as to when such a shared data plan would be deployed to the masses. Of course, having made mention of it, that would mean it is already in the works and a pending announcement might just be very, very near.

It makes sense, really – after all, carriers want to figure out ways for a person to optimize data plans, and they too want to wean folks off unlimited data plans soonest possible.