4G's sims and phone that supports it
have see so many dying to get this new sims of globacom and ntel network as airtel and
Etisalat prepares to lunch their 4g in no time it seems everybody should join but,
I would advise you to carefully check the specifications of the phone you want to buy or the your current phone to find out the 4G band it supports. Popular phone makers like Samsung, Sony, LG make different variants of the same phone. They normally look alike physically but have different features in real sense. For example, Galaxy S5 has up to five
variants. These variants usually support different LTE bands across themselves. So, you need to make sure that the variant you are buying has support for the LTE band of your service provider.
variants. These variants usually support different LTE bands across themselves. So, you need to make sure that the variant you are buying has support for the LTE band of your service provider.
Meanwhile, phone makers like Tecno, Infinix normally have a single variant, and those variant support LTE band 1, 3, 7, 20,. They are most popular bands in Asia, Middle East and Africa.
Your phone is 4G enabled is not a guarantee it will work on all network or with all SIM cards. Do you know that all the 4G network providers have different Bands and Frequency on which their networks work? So this is my main reason why am revealing this to you beforehand so that you won't regret later when your 4G phone fails to work with a certain network.
4G LTE BAND OF NTEL, MTN, SPECTRANET, SMILE, & GLO NETWORKS
✔ Ntel uses band 3 (1800mhz) and band 8 (900mhz)
✔ Spectranet and Swift both use band 40 (2300mhz)
✔ MTN uses band 7 (2600mhz) and 20 (800MHz)
✔ Smile uses band 20 (800mhz)
✔ Glo uses band 28 (700MHz)
In other words, LTE bands are scattered across devices and networks. In general, 4g LTE has different network transmission bands which includes 1,2,3,7,20,21,28 etc. While some of the bands are popular among many smartphones, few of them are not really popular and available on most phones and unfortunately Glo 4G band reportedly falls on band 28 which is hard to find as over 80% of popular 4G phones in Africa and Nigeria in particular don't support band 28 including Infinix Hot S
To make matters worse, none of the Infinix or Tecno LTE devices support band28/700mhz. Glo got this one really wrong.
