How does the phone chose 3g vs 4g? topic

So in the first floor of my office I usually connect to 3g and it's very slow, one day I decided to force the phone to stay on lte and I discovered my building has lte signal on the first floor as well. Why is my phone choosing to connect to 3g when there is 4g available?

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