97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

Sun Feb 8 05:38:10 UTC 2009

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Jeff S Wheeler <jsw at inconcepts.biz> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> Since IPv4 exhaustion is an increasingly serious and timely topic
> lately, I would like to point out something that interests me, and maybe
> everyone else who will be spending a lot on Tylenol and booze when we
> really do run out of v4 IPs.
>
> I have trouble understanding why an ARIN record for a network regularly
> receiving new, out-sized IPv4 allocations on the order of millions of
> addresses at once would publish a remark like the one below, indicating
> that Verizon Wireless has about 2 million IPs allocated.
>
> OrgName:    Cellco Partnership DBA Verizon Wireless
> CIDR:       97.128.0.0/9
> Comment:    Verizon Wireless currently has 44.3 Million
> Comment:    subscribers with 2.097 Million IP addresses allocated.
> RegDate:    2008-04-14
>
>
Why don't you try asking them?

OrgTechHandle: MGE16-ARIN<http://ws.arin.net/whois/?queryinput=P%20%21%20MGE16-ARIN>
OrgTechName: George, Matt
OrgTechPhone: +1-908-306-7000
OrgTechEmail: abuse at verizonwireless.com