Business Strategy Why is Italy betting on its postal service to power AI? Poste bets on Italy’s digital future. By Reuters July 13, 2026 Text Size –> Italy has picked an unlikely champion to develop its technology infrastructure and protect digital sovereignty: its national postman. Poste Italiane, the postal service which pays out pensions through 12,600 post offices that are as much a feature of remote towns as the local church, is betting on its €13.5 billion (US$15.4 billion) bid for Telecom Italia (TIM) to accelerate its shift into digital, telecom and cloud services. Two-thirds state-owned, Poste began its digital…
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