What do you want to become?

Own the radio — scheduling, beamforming, mobility and the procedures that decide whether a call survives.

You'll be able to

Read an RRC or NGAP trace and say why a handover failed.

1. 15G FoundationBeginner
2. 25G RAN SpecialistIntermediate

Own the service-based core — registration, sessions, policy, slicing and the call flows that tie them together.

You'll be able to

Trace a registration or PDU session end to end and find the cause of a reject.

1. 15G FoundationBeginner
2. 25G Core & E2E SpecialistAdvanced

Hold the whole system — radio to core to data network — and be the person who can explain where a problem actually lives.

You'll be able to

Draw the full 5G system from memory and defend it.

1. 15G FoundationBeginner
2. 25G RAN SpecialistIntermediate
3. 35G Core & E2E SpecialistAdvanced

Put AI where it actually pays in a network — forecasting, anomaly detection, and the analytics the core already exposes.

You'll be able to

Tell where a model helps from where a threshold is enough.

1. 15G FoundationBeginner
2. 2AI for Telecom NetworksIntermediate

The radio and the model together — the 3GPP hooks that went normative, RIC-hosted apps, and energy numbers with honest denominators.

You'll be able to

Separate the three strands of AI-RAN — air interface, RIC, shared compute — and say which is standardised.

1. 15G FoundationBeginner
2. 25G RAN SpecialistIntermediate
3. 3AI-RAN & the AI-Native NetworkAdvanced

Be the person in the room who can say what 6G has actually agreed, and what is still a slide.

You'll be able to

Read the IMT-2030 framework precisely.

1. 15G FoundationBeginner
2. 2Road to 6G: IMT-2030 & the First 6G SpecificationsIntermediate

Design the cell on paper, then answer for its KPIs once it is live — link budgets, dimensioning, counters and the parameter change that fixes them.

You'll be able to

Close a link budget to a cell radius and dimension the capacity behind it.

1. 15G FoundationBeginner
2. 25G RAN SpecialistIntermediate
3. 35G RAN Planning & DesignIntermediate
4. 45G RAN Optimisation & PerformanceIntermediate

Run the 5G core as software — Kubernetes, the tuned node under a UPF, and changes that ship through GitOps and come back out.

You'll be able to

Explain why a crashed container heals but a session does not.

1. 15G FoundationBeginner
2. 25G Core & E2E SpecialistAdvanced
3. 3Telco Cloud: Kubernetes, CNFs & GitOpsAdvanced

Read 5G security the way the specification writes it — what is implemented, what is actually used, and what an auditor will ask.

You'll be able to

Follow SUCI concealment and 5G-AKA to the key hierarchy.

1. 15G FoundationBeginner
2. 25G Core & E2E SpecialistAdvanced
3. 35G Security: SUCI to Post-QuantumAdvanced

Take 5G to orbit — slant range, Doppler and link budgets you can compute, and cells that move under the phone.

You'll be able to

Compute delay, Doppler and a satellite link budget from the geometry.

1. 15G FoundationBeginner
2. 25G RAN SpecialistIntermediate
3. 3NTN & Direct-to-Device: 5G from OrbitIntermediate

Design the 5G network a plant, port or campus runs on — whose network it is, whose spectrum, where each function sits, and why.

You'll be able to

Choose between an SNPN and a PNI-NPN design and place each network function on site or off.

1. 15G FoundationBeginner
2. 2Private 5G: NPN Architecture, Spectrum & the Enterprise EdgeIntermediate

Pick the device class an IoT product can afford — RedCap, eRedCap, LTE-M, NB-IoT or Ambient IoT — and price every cut it makes.

You'll be able to

Price each RedCap and eRedCap reduction in peak rate and coverage.

1. 15G FoundationBeginner
2. 2RedCap, eRedCap & Ambient IoTIntermediate