Current IPv6 state of US Mobile Phone Carriers

Tue May 22 23:59:00 UTC 2012

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 at 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 at gree.co.jp>  wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.  How 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.  Samsung is doing a good job
>> of
>> bringing IPv6 to Android devices. More info here
>
> That's interesting.  I have a Galaxy Nexus on T-Mobile USA and it doesn't
> get an IPv6 address, only IPv4.  Works fine with IPv6 over my wireless
> network at home.  Doesn't seem to be anything obvious in the settings to
> enable or disable that.
>
> Paul
>