{"id":1020105,"date":"2026-07-11T08:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020105"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:09:44","slug":"special-delivery-italys-postman-joins-the-ai-infrastructure-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/11\/special-delivery-italys-postman-joins-the-ai-infrastructure-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Special delivery: Italy&#8217;s postman joins the AI infrastructure race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy has picked an unlikely champion to develop its technology infrastructure and protect digital sovereignty: its national postman. <\/p>\n<p>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 \u20ac13.5 billion ($15.4 billion) bid for Telecom Italia (TIM) to accelerate its shift into digital, telecom and cloud services. <\/p>\n<p>Two-thirds owned by the state, Poste started its digital transformation in the early 2000s, venturing into electronic payments. Over the past decade it has signed up 30 million users &#8211; around 70% of the total &#8211; to Italy&#8217;s digital ID system to access public services online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u20ac13.5 billion ($15.4 billion) bid for Telecom Italia (TIM) to accelerate its shift into digital, telecom and cloud services. Two-thirds owned by the state, Poste started its digital transformation in the early 2000s, venturing into electronic payments. Over the past decade it has signed up 30 million users &#8211; around 70% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020129,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020105\/revisions\/1020129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}