I found that did not work for me. Still stuck on 4G (LTE):
# gsmctl -F
+QNWINFO: "FDD LTE","50501","LTE BAND 3",1300
I found these commands by reverse engineer of the Web UI setting:
# uci set simcard.@sim[0].service='3g'
# uci commit
# reload_config
# reboot
Confirmed working after reboot:
# gsmctl -F
+QNWINFO: "WCDMA","50501","WCDMA 850",4436