According to an AT&T employee, the carrier will soon be making an offer to customers that some may find quite strange. AT&T will be offering higher data caps (allowing more mobile data usage) for only $5 extra per month. This is quite significant because of the relatively small price increase compared to the larger data increase, giving customers better value for their money.

If you’re a little bummed that you’re still an AT&T subscriber when you could be on Verizon now that they have an iPhone, rest assured, you still have a plethora of reasons to be happy staying put. First, you likely have a faster data connection that’s usable while talking. AT&T recently added a new unlimited mobile to any mobile feature with unlimited texting free of charge, and now you can even bank an extra 1,000 rollover minutes just for saying “Yes.”

An Apple-branded cell service could come in the form of a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), which is cell service offered by a company that does not physically own a license to the radio frequencies or tower/cable infrastructure necessary for providing that service. MVNOs instead lease capacity from other companies who do maintain the infrastructure, and Apple may be in a position to do just that.

Today, AT&T posted a message on their site that indicates they’re going to expand their unlimited mobile to mobile feature to include any mobile on any carrier. Details are basically nonexistent other than the image above, but we know this much: AT&T intends to bundle this with their unlimited texting plan, and it’s obviously intended to draw consumers away from Verizon now that the iPhone is available on multiple carriers in the US. But is it enough?