Current IPv6 state of US Mobile Phone Carriers

Wed May 23 00:36:13 UTC 2012

On 05/22/2012 01:40 PM, Paul Graydon 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
>
Cameron contacted me off list and pointed out the steps.  Works a treat, 
NAT64 is handling the IPv4 traffic without any obvious problems, along 
with IPv6.  Smooth and simple.  Shame it has to be switched on through 
some manual steps, but I guess that's understandable for now given it's 
technically in Beta stage.

Paul