This constant connection is called signaling exchange. There is a clear location where the operator's base station is built, for example, on the upper floors of a neighborhood. According to your cell phone and base station communication contact can be roughly judged in which small area you have appeared in the area, the general city is about 300 meters within the scope of the rural is about 500 meters within the scope. This year the operator launched the principle of communication big data trip card service is probably so.
And other sources of whereabouts data can be more broadly included in your contact with public **** facilities, such as the use of public **** transportation, moving tickets in and out of the station are systematically recorded. Buses, subway stations, highway entrances and exits and so on. It can be said that in the era of digitization, intelligence, a person's whereabouts track are all traceable.