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Certification Path

Become aCertified 5G Professional.

RAN, Core and the road to 6G. Certified course by course, with a credential employers can verify.

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Taught by engineers who have run live networks, and certified by TELCOMA Global, training telecom engineers since 2009. Every certificate carries a verification number an employer can check.

The path — 3 courses, 3 certificates

Take them in order and it is ~12 weeks at 15–20 minutes a day. Each one certifies on its own, so you can start where you already are.

  1. New
    TELCOMA 5G Foundation

    5G Foundation

    Place 5G in the real world and draw the whole system from memory — architecture, SBA, radio, and the power-on-to-first-packet journey. No prior telecom knowledge assumed.

    34 lessons≈3.3h7 moduleswk 1–4

    Prerequisite: None

  2. New
    TELCOMA 5G RAN Specialist

    5G RAN Specialist

    Decode the NR air interface, run a handover in your head, and dimension a real 5G RAN — from the resource grid and massive MIMO to CU/DU/RU splits, Open RAN, and KPIs.

    31 lessons≈3.4h7 moduleswk 5–8

    Prerequisite: 5G Foundation, or equivalent working knowledge of 5G architecture

  3. New
    TELCOMA 5G Core & E2E Specialist

    5G Core & E2E Specialist

    Trace every message of the procedures that define 5G, then engineer QoS, slicing, edge, security and voice end-to-end — and hold an informed conversation about 5G-Advanced and 6G.

    38 lessons≈5.1h8 moduleswk 9–12

    Prerequisite: 5G Foundation, or equivalent; 5G RAN Specialist recommended

Certificate per course

Pass the exam at the end of each video course and you earn that course’s certificate — verifiable, QR-checkable by an employer, and yours to keep. Work through the path and you collect the full set.

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Specialist certifications

Standalone courses that stack onto your 5G foundation — each with its own TELCOMA credential. Included in Pro at no extra cost.

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AI for Telecom Networks

TELCOMA Telecom AI Specialist

GenAI and machine learning for network operations — where AI already runs in your network, the methods that actually work on telecom data, the 5G core's own analytics function, and how to choose a first deployment that cannot hurt you.

6 modules26 lessons≈3.8h
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AI-RAN & the AI-Native Network

TELCOMA AI-RAN Specialist

AI inside the radio itself — the 3GPP hooks that went normative, RIC-hosted apps running on live networks, the shared-compute argument, and honest energy numbers with their denominators. Three strands, one honesty ladder.

6 modules31 lessons≈3.6h
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Road to 6G: IMT-2030 & the First 6G Specifications

TELCOMA 6G Readiness Specialist

6G as it actually stands, not as it is pitched — the targets ITU-R set, what the 3GPP studies have genuinely agreed, where the spectrum question really sits, and one ruler that tells you which rung any 6G claim is standing on.

6 modules27 lessons≈3.5h
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NTN & Direct-to-Device: 5G from Orbit

TELCOMA NTN Specialist

The satellite link taught as arithmetic, not architecture — slant range and delay you can compute, a link budget that closes in both directions, the pre-compensation a handset owes before it may transmit, and the mobility a moving cell forces on a network built for stationary ones.

5 modules27 lessons≈3.7h
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5G RAN Planning & Design

TELCOMA RAN Planning & Design Specialist

Radio planning taught as arithmetic you can reproduce and defend in a design review — a link budget that ends in a cell radius, a capacity chain that ends in a site count, and the parameter sheet that leaves your desk. Every number is computed from stated inputs against two 3GPP reference cases, urban and rural, lifted from a single published evaluation table so no two lessons can disagree.

5 modules28 lessons≈4.5h
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5G RAN Optimisation & Performance

TELCOMA RAN Optimisation Specialist

The optimisation loop as a decision procedure run on numbers somebody else produced. Accessibility, retainability, mobility and throughput taken apart until causes that share a symptom can be told apart — and a running theme that the denominator is where the lie lives, because correcting it changes the verdict rather than the decimal place.

6 modules31 lessons≈5.1h
Expanding catalog

More specialist certifications on the way

The catalogue grows, and every future course is included in Pro at no extra cost. Beyond the flagship path, 9 more specialist certifications are in production — each a focused, standards-aligned course that stacks onto your 5G foundation. Four land every month, starting October 2026.

October 2026

4 certifications
  • Telco Cloud: Kubernetes, CNFs & GitOpslabs
  • Private 5G: SNPN, Spectrum & the Enterprise Edgelabs
  • 5G Security: 5G-AKA to Post-Quantum
  • Open RAN: RIC, xApps & the Open Interfaces

November 2026

4 certifications
  • RedCap, eRedCap & Ambient IoT
  • VoNR & IMS: Voice on the 5G Core
  • Network Slicing End-to-End: from URSP to SLA
  • Telecom SOC & Signaling Security

December 2026

1 certifications
  • ISAC Engineering
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