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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
Technology

Special delivery: Italy's postman joins the AI infrastructure race

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 ($15.4 billion) bid for Telecom Italia (TIM) to accelerate its shift into digital, telecom and cloud services.

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