[152875] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Current IPv6 state of US Mobile Phone Carriers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PC)
Tue May 22 19:59:38 2012
In-Reply-To: <4FBC23D8.5040109@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 17:59:00 -0600
From: PC <paul4004@gmail.com>
To: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
IPV6 is present, to my knowledge, on all devices on the Verizon IPV6
LTE network. I noticed its using it to communicate to Google for many
of it's services when I ran a netstat. I believe they mandated
support for it from any certified device.
Unfortunately, it's still firewalled.
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk> wrot=
e:
> On 05/22/2012 01:21 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
>>
>> On May 22, 2012 4:00 PM, "Paul Porter"<paul.porter@gree.co.jp> =A0wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi NANOG,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for some information on the four largest US mobile phone
>>> carriers and the current state of their IPv6 infrastructure.
>>> Specifically,
>>> we are trying to figure out:
>>>
>>> 1. =A0How much of the carrier core and edge for AT&T, Verizon. T-Mobile=
,
>>> and
>>> Sprint are on IPv6 now?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> T-Mobile USA has native ipv6 to all subscribers in all of it's coverage
>> area. But, less than 1% of subscribers use IPv6 because they do not have
>> an
>> IPv6 capable phone. The Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus work well.
>>
>> This device challenge will improve in time. =A0Samsung is doing a good j=
ob
>> of
>> bringing IPv6 to Android devices. More info here
>
> That's interesting. =A0I have a Galaxy Nexus on T-Mobile USA and it doesn=
't
> get an IPv6 address, only IPv4. =A0Works fine with IPv6 over my wireless
> network at home. =A0Doesn't seem to be anything obvious in the settings t=
o
> enable or disable that.
>
> Paul
>
