[Author: Miklos Szanyi, published on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 ]

"Verizon Communications (VZ) met analysts' third-quarter earnings and sales forecasts Monday, despite the dual head winds of a weak economy and its main rival's hot-selling iPhone.
For the quarter that ended Sept. 30, the country's No. 2 telecom carrier..."

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