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by abeld 4284 days ago
Without knowing more about the data, one possible cause might be sim cards that are not used by actual humans, but for example by smart meters, security equipment, etc., which only have to report to one central location and thus have only one contact.

When using mobile phone data, filtering out such "artifacts" can be a big issue and it might not be possible to do accurately