Profit margin != Screwing.

citation wanted

"Profit" is hard to measure. This may be good enough:

Verizon Wireless FY 2011

http://www22.verizon.com/investor/app_resources/interactivea...

Segment operating income margin 26.4%

Segment EBITDA service margin 44.8%

Verizon Wireless 1Q 2012

http://www22.verizon.com/idc/groups/public/documents/adacct/...

Operating Income Margin 28.6%

Segment EBITDA Service Margin 46.3%

Interesting things I also learned from this report:

- Verizon wireless is 55% Verizon, 45% Vodafone

- $52 ARPU (average revenue per user per month)

This is true, I was looking at VZ's chart:

http://ycharts.com/companies/VZ/profit_margin

According to Yahoo Finance it's profit margin is 2.6%

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=VZ+Key+Statistics