Phone Call Data Reveals How Pace of Life Accelerates In Cities
Phone Call Data Reveals How Pace of Life Accelerates In Cities
City dwellers have more contacts and accumulate them at a faster rate than those who live in smaller conurbations, say network scientists.
The researchers’ result comes from the study of a vast number of anonymised telephone call records. They examined 440 million mobile phone calls made in Portugal over a period of 15 months and almost 8 billion landline calls made in Britain during a single month.
These guys worked out where each caller lived using the location of a mobile phone’s most frequently used cell tower and a landline’s local telephone exchange.
Full Story: Technology Review
(via telecoscmt)
