FP3 Android 10 Update - 4G is slower compared to another brand phone

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@moliva1904

4G doesn’t work. 3G, LTE, 2G etc does.

General Fairphone 3 discussion

For tech marketing purposes, 4G and LTE are considered the same thing, but …

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@moliva1904

On a different phone both SIMs displayed “4G”, like my Fairphone 3 before update.

Whether the phone uses the term “4G” or “LTE” for the same thing might depend on the Android version or costumisations done by the phone vendor.

I would assume your phone after the upgrade would now simply display “LTE” in the situations in which it displayed “4G” before. You could check that at places where you know which kind of reception you got before.