97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

Mon Feb 9 06:11:58 UTC 2009

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Jeff S Wheeler <jsw at inconcepts.biz> wrote:
> What services require an IP, whether they can be supplied via NAT, how
> soon "smart phone" adoption will bring IP to every handset ... all these
> are good and valid points.  However, they all distract from the glaring
> and obvious reality that there is no current explanation for Verizon
> Wireless needing 27M IPs.

27 million IP addresses for 45 million customers with addressable
devices sounds well within ARIN's justification guidelines.

Just because most of your customers are trying to pull the wool over
ARIN's eyes doesn't mean Verizon is too. :)

Drive Slow,
Paul Wall