[191885] in North American Network Operators' Group
Kudos to Rogers Wireless on IPv6 deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hugo Slabbert)
Sun Oct 2 00:15:36 2016
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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 20:37:50 -0700
From: Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com>
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So frequently on this list we hear people asking/begging their providers=20
for IPv6 roadmaps or chastising them for the lack of same, that I thought=
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it might be nice to actually give props to a provider actually moving the=
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needle.
I was pleasantly surprised today to notice an IPv6 address on my Android=20
smartphone on the Rogers Wireless LTE network. I had to do a double-take=
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and poke through test-ipv6.com to make sure something wasn't amiss, but=20
there it was: honest-to-$deity dual stack service on a Canadian mobile=20
provider, with a dual-stack resolver and everything! ;)
So, kudos, Rogers Wireless!
So that's Rogers on the wireless side (with Telus Mobility at last check=20
being in early stages but not yet fully rolled out), and basically Rogers,=
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Telus and a bunch of smaller or regional ISPs that have deployed IPv6 on=20
residential and/or business wired service. Shaw? Bell? (FYI Bell, your=
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IPv6 Starter Kit linked from http://ipv6.bell.ca/ currently hits a 404.
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Hugo Slabbert | email, xmpp/jabber: hugo@slabnet.com
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