Interplay between Telecommunications and Face-to-Face Interactions: A Study Using Mobile Phone Data

In this study we analyze one year of anonymized telecommunications data for over one million customers from a large European cellphone operator, and we investigate the relationship between people's calls and their physical location. We discover that more than 90% of users who have called each o...

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Main Authors: Calabrese, Francesco, Smoreda, Zbigniew, Blondel, Vincent D., Ratti, Carlo
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66171
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2026-5631
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1563-800X