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Phone Call Data Reveals How Pace of Life Accelerates In Cities
emergentfutures:

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

Phone Call Data Reveals How Pace of Life Accelerates In Cities

emergentfutures:

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

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