In this paper, we review some advances made recently in the study of mobile
phone datasets. This area of research has emerged a decade ago, with the
increasing availability of large-scale anonymized datasets, and has grown into
a stand-alone topic. We will survey the contributions made so far on the social
networks that can be constructed with such data, the study of personal
mobility, geographical partitioning, urban planning, and help towards
development as well as security and privacy issues.
