What does this LAST MILE Tech thread consider the necessary parameters to "solving the last mile" for the next 10 (15 20, ??) years?
I am asking this question in a hypothetical way and trying to think of the problem in a parametric way, as opposed to describing a specific physical device from any particular "family" of technologies (-and, yes, I have my own biases - as every one here probably does but i'd like to hear what others think the parms are - and why.).
Obviously, the "solution" would have some elements we can guess at, but what is _needed_ to collect the pot of gold?
To start lets ask these questions:
Bandwidth: Is 100Mbps enough, 50? or do we need a gigabit/sec?
Cost of deployment, Sending and receiving ends, and medium Under 2000$, Under 1000$, Under $500?, FREE (i.e. content owner pays)? per connected last mile node?
Is last mile node mobility important, or not? If it is, at what speed of mobility? (pedestrian, car, train, plane?), should it be "base station" connected, or like a cell phone?
Should the technology, be "global", i.e. 3rd world enabling, and costs recovery scaled from this degree of penetration?, or do we really only care about "the west", or North America, or only the USA (or nation of your interest) as the underlying economic scale against which one makes the business decisions. Is this relevant?
It seems to me, that unless we can answer these ("what are the parameters of the last mile solved?") question(s) for ourselves, in our own private way, we may not recognize that the solution is in front of us when it shows up.
Another way of putting this, is that if hypothetically, there are 50 contending technologies today, and they all, hypothetically, matured in the next 10 days, how would you "recognize" the ONE to invest in 11 days from now?
Perhaps this has been asked before here, if so my apologies (and please post a url or other reference to the answers for me).
In the alternative, tell us, and post what you think "makes it"...
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