"Wireless LANs solve the problem of the last mile, particularly in a metropolitan area, " says Ma.
We pointed out that there are better alternatives for delivering broadband over the last mile.
Rodgers didn't consider quitting, and barely thought about the threat until the last mile.
That owes to a relative bandwidth mismatch between the backbone and the last mile.
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Deloitte looked at precisely this issue recently, in its report Charging Ahead: The Last Mile.
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But he may earn some of it back by solving the "last mile" problem.
The local loop assets cover the last mile or so of wire between telephone exchanges and homes.
The Last Mile feature will not be available for the Garmin StreetPilot iPhone app at this point.
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Racks everywhere would solve the "last mile" problem of having to hoof it to and from public transit stops.
Only the last mile, he says, since content is all around the edge.
The Last Mile is a six-month, twice-weekly program for prisoners to learn entrepreneurship while developing their own startup idea.
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The new Last Mile feature provides users a streamlined navigation experience when continuing by foot after parking the car.
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MSOs are carrying the cost of upgrading the networks, sometimes including the last mile, which the cable operators usually control.
Historically, as trade expanded markets, products led the way because services were difficult to convey to the last mile of consumption.
The lack of last mile bandwidth is holding up the next generation of Internet software, which requires streaming audio and TV-quality video.
He is attacking the heart of the problem, the metropolitan area network that bridges the "last mile" between businesses and long-haul networks.
But there is a third pillar to renewed prosperity: bandwidth last mile bandwidth.
Telecom providers believe that millions more Americans would use high-speed broadband Internet connections if only they could solve the so-called "last mile" problem.
For orders sourced outside the major cities, individual couriers often have to be hired to make last mile deliveries from drop-off points by bicycle.
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"I was just running like crazy trying to finish that last mile and all of a sudden people were stacked up ahead, " he said.
Levin says there is still a gap at the most expensive part of the network: the last mile between the Internet and the consumer.
It could use that capability to deliver mail "the last mile" in innovative ways, such as assisting new businesses in the area to advertise.
Last Mile Navigation is already available for the NAVIGON Android app but will be new to the NAVIGON iPhone app with the upcoming update.
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"The last mile almost did him in, " Shortway-DeAugustines said of Schreiner.
Perhaps most important, digital wireless is prying open the biggest bottleneck in tech--that "last mile" between speed-of-light fiber-optic networks and the zippy insides of your PC.
That means satellite TV providers could join a growing list of companies and cities offering to carry data over the last mile to your front door.
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Heredia did something similar on his own prior to going to prison but says after the Last Mile program he is better prepared to run the business.
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