It seems that someone has decided to file a pretty little lawsuit against AT&T. It’s being said that AT&T is overstating the data usage and overbilling the iPhone and iPad data charges! AT&T’s billing is being compared to going in to a rigged gas pump, you’ll only pump 9/10 of a gallon but you’ll be charged for a full gallon.

“In the new complaint, named plaintiff Patrick Hendricks claims that AT&T’s overbilling “was discovered by an independent consulting firm retained by plaintiff’s counsel, which conducted a two-month study of AT&T’s billion practices for data usage, and found that AT&T systematically overstate web server traffic by 7 percent to 14 percent, and in some instances by over 300 percent. So, for example, if an iPhone user downloads a 50KB website, AT&T’s bill would typically overstated the traffic as 53.5KB (a 7 percent overcharge0 to as high as 150KB (a 300 percent overcharge).”

Not only that, but the consulting firm also discovered that AT&T even bills for phantom data traffic, that is to say, data that was never used. The consulting firm set up a test account, closed every app, disabled push notifications and location services. The didn’t have an email accounts configured and they didn’t touch the iPhone for 10 days, but somehow AT&T still billed them for using 2,292KB of data usage.

“This is like the rigged gas pump charging you when you never even pulled your car into the station.”

There may be a lot of AT&T users that this will never affect but there are also those who just barely exceed the limitations of the data cap who now have to pay double the usual amount for data that month!

What do you think about this lawsuit? Do you suspect AT&T overstated or overbilled you? Let us know in your comments, I look forward to reading them!