Mpirical alternative

This is the difference that matters, and it is worth being precise about.

Mpirical's Unlimited Access lists a certificate of completion. That is a record of attendance: it says the videos were played. It cannot say whether you could do the work afterwards, because nothing tested you.

Ours is issued only after a graded exam — one domain per module, every question written against a specific lesson, with a pass mark you can miss. The certificate carries a number and a QR code to a public verification page. A recruiter opens it with no account and sees the holder, the exam, the score and the date, read from our records rather than from the PDF somebody emailed them.

If what you need is evidence you can put in front of a hiring manager or an auditor, those two documents do different jobs, and only one of them survives the question "how do I know?"

Watching somebody explain a PDU session establishment is not the same as opening the trace and finding the message that failed.

Mpirical prices its Learning Paths separately, from £295 on top of the £975 subscription. Our hands-on work is in the base price: real message traces to decode, vendor configs to read, and a 5G core simulator you can actually break — stop the UPF and watch the SMF contexts drop, then work out why from what the logs say.

One interactive lab per course is open on a free account, before you pay anything, which is the fastest way to tell whether this is the kind of teaching you want.

TELCOMA Global has been training telecom engineers since 2009, and that has always included instructor-led delivery — on-site at your premises, live online, or in a classroom — and train-the-trainer programmes that leave your own faculty able to run the material after we step back. Operators, enterprises, universities and government workforce schemes buy it that way.

For most teams the right shape is both. Put everyone through the self-paced certifications so they arrive with the same vocabulary and the same labs behind them, then spend the live sessions on your network, your traces and your problems — rather than on fundamentals a video already covers, at instructor rates.

The training for organisations page starts that conversation: bulk seats, SSO and SCORM, co-branded certificates, cohort reporting, and a reply within one business day.

A 2G-to-6G library is a reasonable purchase for a department that has to cover everything shallowly. It is a poor fit for an engineer who needs to genuinely know 5G RAN, or the cloud-native core, or where AI actually sits in the radio.

Our catalogue is 5G, O-RAN, AI for telecom, AI-RAN and 6G, taught in depth, with labs on real traces and an exam behind each course. Nobody is asked to skim two thousand videos to find the fifty that matter to their job.

And the catalogue keeps growing. New certifications land and are included at the price you started on — you are not re-quoted because the field moved.