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Connect will be mental health services. Jasamyn Roberts, of USTelecom , a trade association representing broadband service providers and suppliers, reported (22 nd August) that veterans can now access 300 medical providers from 50 specialities at 67 VA hospitals and clinics. She emphasised the profound e ect broadband has on the medical industry by serving as the wired backbone supporting connectivity to the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT).

† Other damaging assertions have been levelled at Huawei. Most recently, the New York Times reported in March that a previously unreported subpoena was sent to Huawei in December 2016 by the USA Treasury Department, signalling an expansion of an earlier probe into whether the company violated trade controls with Cuba, Sudan, Iran and Syria. This does not indicate that Huawei is under criminal investigation but does suggest that the company might be suspected of violating American embargoes. Mr Gibbs also recalled that the company’s headaches mounted in May when a jury awarded $4.8 million to T-Mobile after nding that Huawei misappropriated the carrier’s trade secrets. † Throughout, the Chinese vendor had not slackened its USA initiative, even as it found a readier welcome elsewhere. Its latest agship smartphone, the Honor 9, was released in Europe in June. But, wrote Mr Gibbs, “Huawei has yet to announce any plans to release the phone in the United States.” Elsewhere in telecom . . . † The USA Department of Veteran A airs provided some 700,000 military veterans with medical care via tech devices over the last year. Already running one of the nation’s largest telemedicine programmes, the VA is expanding with an app that will operate in every VA hospital across the country and try to reach vets wherever they live. A particular focus of VA Video

Automotive

Four European carmakers are o ering four- gure incentives for trade-ins of old diesel cars on new models of the same brand The German news site Tagespiegel has reported that Opel, Fiat-Chrysler, and Mercedes-Benz have joined the growing number of German car manufacturers o ering trade-ins with incentives to owners of older diesel cars. Opel, formerly owned by General Motors of the USA but now part of PSA Peugeot Citroen, o ers around $8,370 to owners trading in Euro 1 to Euro 4 diesel cars. The o er does not extend to UK customers, a Vauxhall spokesman told Jimi Beckwith of AutoCar . Opel does, however, continue to make $2,500 scrappage payments in Britain. Through to 30 th September at least, Fiat-Chrysler was o ering up to $7,750 on a trade-in, applicable to cars of Euro 4 standard

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