Verizon data plans expected to be followed by AT&T, others

Verizon’s new data plans are expected to be followed by others in the industry as wireless firms focus their attention on charges for Internet data, according to analysts.

That business strategy benefits the biggest wireless carriers — AT&T and Verizon Wireless — and presents new problems for competitors trying to chip away at those firms’ dominance. “In a world where incentives for families favor concentrating around a single provider, the biggest providers win,” said analyst Craig Moffett, of Sanford C. Bernstein.