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Verizon admits it's into BDSM in T-Mobile Twitter battle


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Man, the cell phone wars are getting dirty.

Wireless provider Verizon's response to T-Mobile's Super Bowl ad, a spoof on the raunchy film Fifty Shades of Grey, spilled into too-much-information territory.

Read it for yourself.

T-Mobile's ad featured a man describing the pain of data overage fees and confusing bills to a titillated Kristen Schaal. The tagline then appears on screen, "Wireless pain is fine, if you're into that sort of thing."

But T-Mobile's CEO John Legere fired back.

Verizon then followed up their original tweet with this gem.

Legere responded again.

Here's what others had to say:

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