can you use the same apple id for two phones on the cloud?
can you use the same apple id for two phones on the same verizon account and if so can you keep there contacts etc. separate?
iPhone 5
If you want to keep your contacts and other data you sync with iCloud separate, you'll have to create separate iCloud accounts, which will require different IDs. If you share the same iCloud account/ID on multiple devices, the synced data will be merged and will appear on all devices syncing with the shared account.
You can still share the same ID for iTunes; it doesn't have to be the same as the one used for iCloud.