How To Know Smartphone 4G LTE Bands For Various Networks

4G LTE seems to be booming in Nigeria. Most network have adapted the 4G LTE services and subscribers are willingly to enjoy the speed of 4G data plans.You should be aware that each networks have different frequency bands for their 4G LTE and this affects supported device for each network, ie. MTN has different 4G connection band for Glo and some phones might support MTN 4G services while some phones may reject it.

To appreciate super blazing web speed, it is not as basic as purchasing a 4G cell phone, embeddings your 4G LTE SIM and begin surfing with it. Folks, it is a great deal more than that. Loads of individuals were discouraged when they found that their gadget doesn't bolster Glo 4G band 28 (700Mhz) after feline strolling into the Glo office to get USIM.

It is vital to know your smartphone 4G LTE bands and recurrence to keep away from story that touch. I will ask you to read this article with all seriousness because it would help in you in choosing 4G smartphones for various networks in Nigeria.
Read through this article to discover all that you have to think around 4G LTE bands, supported networks and smartphones similarity.

At this moment, 3 noteworthy systems have the 4G LTE benefit in Nigeria and they are MTN, Glo and Etisalat. Different systems in Nigeria with 4G LTE administrations are Spectranet, ntel, Swift and Smile. We are anticipating that Airtel should reveal their 4G benefits soon. The vast majority of the 4G cell phones in Nigeria utilize band 3, 4, 7, 20 or 28. Look at what band your favored system has underneath:

1. MTN 4G LTE: It supports band 20 (800MHz) and Band 7 (2600MHz)
2. Glo 4G LTE: It supports band 28 (700MHz)
3. Etisalat 4G LTE:It supports band 3 (1800MHz)
4. NTEL 4G LTE: It supports band 8 (900MHz) and Band 3 (1800MHz)
5. Spectranet and Swift, both supports band 40 (2300mhz)
6. Smile, supports band 20 (800mhz)

Those are the numbers people and agreeing what we listened, the lower frequencies have a tendency to perform better in country zones with less poles and they can go through dividers better with not too bad scope while the higher frequencies do the inverse, yet they can adapt to more clients in populated territories interfacing on the double. These are specialized terms that I don't think you require at this moment, whatever recurrence your favored system has, you ought to get some OK transfer and download speed. You could download 1GB file under 4-mins, depending on the network strength and your area of location. This also means you have to purchase data with high Gigabytes like 10GB and above. You never can tell you might use 10GB before two weeks

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To Know Your 4G LTE Network Band Using Mtk Engineering 

 

MTK Engineering is a very good android app that can determine the 4G LTE of your Android phones. The good news is that it doesn't require rooting but the bad news is that it works mainly on MTK (Mediatek) devices. Below are the steps used to check your 4G LTE Network bands using MTK Engineering.

1. First download and install MTK Engineering Mode from Google Play here
2. Launch the app and click on  "MTK Settings"
3. Next click "BandMode"
4. Select your SIM
5. You will see a list of band mode, from GSM to LTE,
6. If you cannot tick the band 28 check box, then forget about using Glo 4G LTE service.
7. If you cannot tick the band 3 check box, then forget about using Etisalat 4G LTE service.
8. If you are not able tick band 20 or 7 check box, your phone is not supported for MTN 4G LTE service. If you use Ntel and you can’t tick band 8 or band 3, then your smartphone has no support for Ntel network.

You can also know the 4G Network bands of your smartphones by searching for the specifications of your phone online. By doing that you will get detailed information of the 4G bands in the Network section.
This methods works for both MTK and non-MTK smartphones.If you are finding it difficult knowing the 4G Network band of your smartphone, kindly drop the smartphone name in the comment box below and we will tell you the network band.
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