LTE vs 4G and wifi calling (Lyca)

[miniman]

Having got sick of unreliable service and price rises I have binned off O2 and tried Lycamobile to get on the EE network at a lower price.

Signal in my area is poor and Lyca doesn’t seem to support wifi calling so don’t think it will work for me.

Also I seem to get LTE network instead of 4G which I believe is materially slower.

Suspect I’ll end up direct with EE but any thoughts?

[.Adam.]

I've just gone to Spusu, who use the EE network and support WiFi calling. It is LTE rather than 4g, but according to their website they are different names for the same thing, not sure if that's correct though!

[camel_landy]

LTE is the underlying technology known as "4G". 4G is just a marketing term.

In other words, they are one and the same.

What might be different though is the cell you happen to be on and/or moving between. Bandwidth could simply down to contention (ie: number of users) or the backhaul onto the main network.

HTH

M