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| Type | Private corporation |
|---|---|
| Genre | Telecommunications |
| Headquarters | , Uruguay |
Area served | Uruguay |
| Website | www.dedicado.com.uy |
Dedicado is a Uruguayan telecommunications company. The main product supplied by the firm is fixed base wireless Internet service, which as of June 2014 it provided to 14,168 customers throughout Uruguay (2% of the Uruguayan fixed broadband market.) [1]
Its product competes with a variety of Internet service offerings:
In urban and suburban settings:
In rural settings:
Dedicado's wireless service offers fixed IP addresses and no bandwidth throttling or capping, which differentiates it favorably from most of these competitive offerings.
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