Verizon confirms family data plans coming in 2012

Verizon Wireless customers can expect data plans that allow for multiple devices on a single account in 2012. Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam confirmed this family plan approach at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference. Hints of shared mobile broadband plans have surfaced throughout the past year, but McAdam’s remarks, reported by Fierce Wireless, are the most tangible confirmation yet. Rumors suggest AT&T has also been considering similar plans, but the operator has yet to confirm such initiatives and is now focused on rolling out its own LTE network to compete with the one Verizon launched a year ago.