I also see this change on my iPhone 8 using Verizon.  From a post on AppleVis, 
Apple made the change to a max of 4 cellular bars with the introduction of ios 
11.  If this is the case, this means this whole time that our phones have been 
reading x of 5 bars, voice over has been reading it incorrectly, and now that 
it says x of 4 bars, this is the actual correct reading.
Here is the link to AppleVis:
https://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ios-app-discussion/cellular-bar-indicator-where-correct-announcement

Chris


> On Apr 2, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Tom Lange <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I’ve noticed this change on my iphone 7 on AT&T running IOS 11.3. This is a 
> bug? Seriously? Up until 111.3, every iPhone I’ve ever seen over the last 
> seven years has shown x out of 5 bars. Obviously fixing this supposed bug 
> wasn’t high on Apple’s priority list. I’m curious; has the visual signal 
> strength indicator changed, or is this a matter of VoiceOver misreporting it 
> all along? Hmmm. 
> Tom
> 
>> On Apr 1, 2018, at 2:56 PM, Mr. Ed <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> Again this was a bug with VO announcing five bars. It has now been corrected 
>> on IOS 11.3. I t now announces correctly xx out of four bars.
>> Mr. Ed
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
>> Of Arlene
>> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2018 1:11 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Number of signal bars showing since 11.3
>> 
>> We've noticed the same with our t-mobile phones with it saying 2 to  out of
>> 4 bars instead of out of 5 and the same with my straight talk phone..
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Don Risavy, Jr." <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2018 4:46 PM
>> Subject: RE: Number of signal bars showing since 11.3
>> 
>> 
>>> Have noticed the same thing on my iphone 8+ with Verizon.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
>>> Agent086b
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2018 5:33 PM
>>> To: iPhone List > <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Number of signal bars showing since 11.3
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> one thing I have noticed since installing the latest update is the 
>>> number of signal strength bars. before the update I could see 2 out of 
>>> 5 bars. Since the update I now see 2 out of 4 bars.  So they have 
>>> reduced the number of bars.
>>> Not important but just interesting.
>>> Max.
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