last mile
English
Noun
last mile (plural last miles)
- (telecommunications) The portion of the infrastructure that carries communication signals from the main system to the end users' home or business.
- The problem getting to all these remote customers is still the last mile, no matter how far they live from the switch.
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.- 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian[1]:
- In Britain, back when the last mile referred only to a product’s transit from warehouse to shop, this journey began, most often, in the Midlands.
Translations
portion of the infrastructure
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