Career route
How to become a 5G IoT Engineer
Pick the device class an IoT product can afford — RedCap, eRedCap, LTE-M, NB-IoT or Ambient IoT — and price every cut it makes.
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The route
- 15G Foundation
- 2RedCap, eRedCap & Ambient IoT
- Courses
- 2
- Video
- ~6.3h
- Certificates
- 2
Who takes this route
RAN, core, device and test engineers, and IoT and device engineers new to 3GPP.
What you'll be able to do
- Price each RedCap and eRedCap reduction in peak rate and coverage
- Read how a cell admits reduced-capability devices
- Compute a battery life with eDRX and MICO
- Explain how a battery-free Ambient IoT device answers
- And defend a class for each device
The route, in order
2 courses · 13 modules · about 6.3 hours of video, hands-on labs throughout, and a graded exam at the end of each.
1TELCOMA 5G Foundation5G Foundation5G system architectureNSA vs SAService-based architectureCore network functionsBeginner34 lessons~3.3h7 modules
2TELCOMA 5G IoT SpecialistRedCap, eRedCap & Ambient IoTIoT device-class selectionRedCap & eRedCap trade-offsIoT link budgetsSIB1 admission & bandwidth partsIntermediate29 lessons~3h6 modulesBefore this: Recommended: 5G Foundation. RAN and core depth are not assumed — decibels, receive branches, bandwidth parts, random access and paging are built from zero where the course needs them.
What you earn
2 verifiable TELCOMA certificates, one for each course, issued only after you pass its graded exam. Each carries a number and a QR code to a public page an employer can open without an account.
TELCOMA 5G Foundation
TELCOMA 5G IoT Specialist
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