Poste’s TIM Bid Is Really a Bet on Rebuilding Italy Inc

Poste’s TIM Bid Is Really a Bet on Rebuilding Italy Inc - Moby THE GIST Poste Italiane’s bid for Telecom Italia looks like a telecom deal on paper, but the real story is industrial policy. Italy is trying to pull a battered former monopoly back into a state-controlled orbit and plug it into a broader platform spanning payments, logistics, cloud and digital services. The idea is bold. Instead of treating telecoms as a low-return utility business, Poste wants to make TIM part of a much bigger national infr ...