[152876] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Current IPv6 state of US Mobile Phone Carriers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tina TSOU)
Tue May 22 20:05:24 2012
From: Tina TSOU <Tina.Tsou.Zouting@huawei.com>
To: PC <paul4004@gmail.com>, Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 00:02:38 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAJAdsDmfnw6V1YizfaE2oE7GUXV84fL+LOF4s0X5xfNMPRQ_0Q@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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iOS 5.1 includes SLAAC and DHCPv6 client.
Tina
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PC [mailto:paul4004@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 4:59 PM
> To: Paul Graydon
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Current IPv6 state of US Mobile Phone Carriers
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Unfortunately, it's still firewalled.
>=20
>=20
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > On 05/22/2012 01:21 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
> >>
> >> On May 22, 2012 4:00 PM, "Paul Porter"<paul.porter@gree.co.jp> =A0wrot=
e:
> >>>
> >>> 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-Mobi=
le,
> >>> and
> >>> Sprint are on IPv6 now?
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> T-Mobile USA has native ipv6 to all subscribers in all of it's coverag=
e
> >> 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
> job
> >> 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 wireles=
s
> > network at home. =A0Doesn't seem to be anything obvious in the settings=
to
> > enable or disable that.
> >
> > Paul
> >
