Huawei E173 Support 4g ✭ 【PREMIUM】

You can put a modern 4G or 5G SIM card into an E173. The modem will read the SIM’s authentication data. However, it will only negotiate a connection on 3G or 2G bands. The SIM card is backward compatible; the modem is not forward-compatible.

LTE requires specific hardware components (an LTE baseband processor, RF transceivers, and power amplifiers tuned to frequencies like Band 3, Band 7, Band 20, etc.). The E173’s Qualcomm MSM6290 chipset (a common chip in that era) simply does not contain these components. huawei e173 support 4g

It gives you an upload speed of 5.76 Mbps HSUPA and a download speed of 7.2 Mbps HSDPA. Huawei-E173 - Embetrix 4 Jun 2017 — You can put a modern 4G or 5G SIM card into an E173