Are 4G and 4G LTE networks the same?

The advent of 4G network has brought users a completely new experience, useful when data access speed has increased significantly compared to previous generations of 3G and 2G networks. In the article How to activate 4G on the phone, the Network Administrator has instructed you how to turn on 4G on each smartphone operating system including iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry phone. However, do you wonder why some devices record as 4G, some models record 4G LTE connectivity or not? So what are the differences between these two concepts or are they only connected to 4G on smartphones?

1. How to know if your smartphone supports 4G?

1. What is the 4G network concept?

The true 4G network is Fourth Generation, the fourth-generation wireless communication technology. You can understand this equivalent to 3G or 2G networks. Under normal conditions, 4G speeds allow data transfer speeds up to 1 or 1.5 Gb / s.

With the above data download speed, users can completely watch online videos with standard HD quality, download games with heavy capacity without worrying about problems. In particular, if we need a stable, quality transmission for video conferences, the 4G network will ensure the needs of users.

Readers can refer to other information about 4G network in the article Things to know about 4G network.

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2. What is the 4G LTE concept?

There will be a lot of smartphones when we enable 4G on the phone that will use the term 4G LTE or even LTE only. So what are they different from 4G?

As mentioned, the 4G network transfer rate can be up to 1 or 1.5 Gb / s. Thus, this is considered the speed standard of a 4G network. However, there is currently no network device or smartphone line that can reach such data transfer rates.

On the other hand, LTE (Long Term Evolution) is understood as long-term Evolution. And when additional LTE operators behind 4G mean, this is not yet considered a standard 4G technology network with data transfer rates up to 1 to 1.5 Gb / s in accordance with the 4G network concept. The 4G LTE network is now available as a near-fourth-tier technology standard.

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In addition, LTE is fully understood as LTE CAT with a lot of different standards, from LTE CAT 1 to LTE CAT 8. The higher the LTE CAT lines, the faster the download or download speeds will be. For example, LTE CAT 3 has a download speed of 100 Mbps (100 Megabits per second), downloading a movie of 1 GB capacity will take 82 seconds.

However, LTE CAT 4 has a download speed of 150 Mbps (150 Megabits per second) that can download a 1 GB file with less than 54.6 seconds only.

3. So other 4G LTE 4G or not?

As mentioned above, the current 4G LTE network does not achieve the ideal standard data transfer rate like 4G network. 4G LTE is currently only faster than previous 3G networks.

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However, it is undeniable that the current 4G LTE network has also fully met the needs of users when transmitting data between devices, greatly improving the speed compared to the previous 3G network. Hopefully in the near future, 4G LTE technology will be improved to be able to reach 4G standards.

Hope the above article is useful to you!