"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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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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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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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.
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.
"The last mile almost did him in, " Shortway-DeAugustines said of Schreiner.
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.
This is how syndicated commerce extends performance-based advertising by going the last mile and linking ad dollars at the top of the funnel to revenue conversion.
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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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This technology now reaches more than 70% of homes (see chart) and, unlike Verizon, the cable companies did not have to pay to replace the last mile.
"Technology will improve ... the question is how we go to the last mile, " said Costas Synolakis, a professor of civil engineering at the University of South California.
While most demo days in Silicon Valley feature young entrepreneurs worrying about problems like customer acquisition, the participants in The Last Mile program have other hard realities to think about.
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We are getting there, getting there slowly, please help us to make the last step, go the last mile and I believe that any administration, whoever is the President will do that.
The Last Mile program was created by Chris Redlitz and Beverly Parenti, who also run a more traditional incubator, KickLabs, but started this program to apply their knowledge to help prisoners.
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They claim to have a magic box, a variation of a telecommunications switch that can eliminate the bottleneck known as the Last Mile, that final stretch of cable, fiber or copper into homes.
They claim that they will have a magic box of telecommunications hardware and software that can eliminate the bottleneck known as the Last Mile: the final stretch of cable, fiber or copper into homes.
Brands can market and advertise to contribute to brand in social networks, but in the end, costumer experiences are shared and it is in those exchanges that define the brand in the last mile.
"We have made this last effort because we believe it is important, as we put Americans into a NATO force, that we have gone the last mile, " Albright said, referring to the role Americans would take in a bombing operation.
Vehicle compatible apps like the BMW Connected App can be downloaded from the iTunes store, enabling customers to access Twitter and Facebook updates, listen to internet radio from around the world with Web Radio, and use the Last Mile feature to help find their parked vehicle.
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Second, give regional carriers a hefty incentive eg, by allowing them to buy failing long-distance phone companies, such as WorldCom, or boosting the rates that they are allowed to charge for opening their local lines to competitors in exchange for beefing up the last mile of their networks so that broadband can be rolled out widely and competitively.
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