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TL;DR

Telecom operators face an urgent call to secure their networks for military use as NATO’s summit in The Hague on 2025, June 24-25 will spotlight the role of commercial 5G in defence.

Exercises like Joint Viking 2025 in Arctic Norway and the Digital Backbone Experimentation 2024 in Latvia showed how everyday mobile infrastructure can carry battlefield data.

Regulators from Brussels to Copenhagen are tightening rules to lock out Huawei and ZTE gear.

Firms that fail to prove their networks are “trusted” risk exclusion from lucrative defence contracts under the EU’s new rearmament push.

“Please Hold, Your Call Is Important to NATO”

So, NATO’s hosting its mega-summit in The Hague later this month. Thirty-two countries, 45 heads of state, thousands of diplomats, ministers, and journalists, basically everyone who ever got looped into a defense-themed Zoom call. Official agenda: cooperation and defense spending. Unofficial subtext? Telecoms, congratulations, you’ve been drafted.

That’s right. The mobile networks once used to livestream cat videos and ghost your ex are now being refitted for war games in the Arctic. Enter Joint Viking 2025, where real troops and real tanks communicated over real commercial 5G. Welcome to the new normal, where your phone’s signal could one day route artillery support.

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