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Network and telecommunications technician
Fibre, copper, radio links, access points: the network technician installs and maintains the links that carry everything else. A job where you climb, you measure, and you restore a service hundreds of people are waiting for.
Between the field and the equipment room
Part of the work happens outdoors: pulling cable, splicing fibre, mounting antennas, surveying routes. The rest happens in the equipment room, in front of a rack: clean patching, labelling, configuring a switch, checking links. Between the two comes measurement, which settles arguments — reflectometry, link budget, throughput tests. Service restoration is judged by the minute, and that is where the method learned in training makes the difference.
- Install structured cabling and certify it by measurement
- Splice, terminate and test an optical fibre link
- Configure a switch, an access point, a branch router
- Diagnose an outage and restore service within the agreed time
Employers in the sector
- Telecom operators and internet service providers
- Installation and structured cabling companies
- Industrial and mining sites running their own networks
- Banks and insurers with extensive branch networks
- Integrators deploying video surveillance and access control
The four figures that decide
How long, how many hours in the room or online, how many credits, for what level of responsibility: those four answers are enough to know whether the programme fits your calendar and your plan. They sit here, at the top of the page, rather than at the end of a call with an adviser.
- qualification level
- 4
- months of programme
- 9
- taught hours
- 600 h
- credits
- 60
- competency blocks
- 5
Skilled employee and operative
Led by an instructor.
1 credit = 25 h of work, 10 of them taught.
Framework of the « Network and Telecommunications Technician » qualification, code TP07.
How the framework is built
A professional qualification reads through its blocks: they state what the holder can run alone, and under what conditions. The hours attached to each block show where the framework places the effort. That distribution is a design decision, it is published as such, and it compares block by block with any other programme.
| Competency block | What it covers | Taught hours |
|---|---|---|
| Physical infrastructure | Cabling, racks, fibre, access points, power and UPS | 150 h |
| Enterprise networks | TCP/IP, switching, VLANs, basic routing, wireless | 180 h |
| Operations and monitoring | Monitoring, metrics, troubleshooting, intervention logs | 140 h |
| Telecoms and access links | Carrier links, failover, IP telephony, quality of service | 80 h |
| Professional conduct | Reporting, client relations, safety on site | 50 h |
Entering the networking trades
The path to this occupation is chosen on facts: how long, how many hours with an instructor, how many recognised credits and what amount in Guinean francs. The table gathers them for every open option, in the order a candidate reviews them before filing an application.
| Programme | Duration | Credits | Taught hours | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Networks and Cloud · Bachelor's degree | 2 years | 120 | 1200 h | 5 600 000 GNF per year |
| Computer Science programme — Bac+3 level · Bachelor's degree | 3 years | 180 | 1800 h | 5 400 000 GNF per year |
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