The Veterans Affairs Department (VA) has announced it is expanding its 5G footprint to the Seattle Puget Sound Health Care System. The expansion is made possible through a partnership between the VA and AT&T. The health care hub will capitalize on the technology with experiments in telemedicine, wearables, and virtual reality. The announcement comes just a year after the VA began to strategically pilot the next-generation telecommunications tech, originally partnering with Verizon and deploying its services to a California hospital. The latest move also represents the first time 5G has been made available across the entirety of a large VA healthcare facility.
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