As political parties play friends - telecommunication providers play foes!

Verizon is attacking AT&T and vice versa. T-Mobile is attacking both of them. Sprint does not have much to fight about at this juncture but that will change as LTE and WiMAX adoption increase.

Among the more recent attack ads was one from Verizon touting the sound quality of its iPhone. Now, AT&T is firing back at Verizon with an ad touting the benefits of talking and surfing the Web at the same time.

As indicated below both Verizon and AT&T stock are down at the time of this post but perhaps that respresent opportunities for investors.

Symbol	% Chg	Mkt Cap
VZ	0.19%	102.65B
T	0.07%	165.33B