Bunch of college classmates went to work at telecom operators, because, after all, we were majoring in Telecomm Engineering. It was basically a mix of EE and software engineering, with specific telecom classes thrown in. First one was called "Transmission and propagation", very low-level, radio and cable layer, heavy on physics and math. It would help you if you went to work for an equipment manufacturer or to choose radio tower sites. Next ones were higher level, one for how a GSM network works: BTS, BSC, MTS and all that stuff. Then a 3G (brand new at the time) data network overview.
This would prepare you enough, apparently, to work for a mobile operator as an engineer.
Also, most telecoms have a lot of IT/developper people, because they operate and develop a lot of services. You could easily get in on that.
Do you know of places where I can get no-name Telecom Engineering degrees online? I would not even care about the rep.
I had friends in Egypt actually majoring in that, and stupidly it was long before I cared. OR I definitely would have gone to make copies of books at local copy shops like we did for the rest of our classes.
This would prepare you enough, apparently, to work for a mobile operator as an engineer.
Also, most telecoms have a lot of IT/developper people, because they operate and develop a lot of services. You could easily get in on that.