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It's Your Wallet Calling

John Klossner

October 2, 2015

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While the carriers continue to cut costs internally, customer and business rates keep increasing. What happened to free phones and unlimited data and texting? Plus, the call quality is still nothing to phone home about.

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John Klossner has been drawing technology cartoons for more than 15 years. His work regularly appears in Computerworld and Federal Computer Week. His illustrations and cartoons have also been published in The New Yorker, Barron's, and The Wall Street Journal.

Web site: http://www.jklossner.com/

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