No, Denny Strigl wasn't talking about T-Mobile's new smartphone. Verizon Wireless's COO recently said in an interview that Verizon is preparing to battle the iPhone with a product it will release later this summer. He even went so far as to take a potshot at AT&T's network, saying, "The issue is not the Apple-ness of the iPhone itself, but with the cellular network that it is running on." Will the war for new customers and growth in the cell phone industry be waged--and won--by providing the best devices, or the best service?


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