Current IPv6 state of US Mobile Phone Carriers

Wed May 23 11:24:28 UTC 2012

In the radio interface?
Something in the GUI?

Alvaro

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Tina TSOU [mailto:Tina.Tsou.Zouting at huawei.com] 
Enviado el: miércoles, 23 de mayo de 2012 2:03
Para: PC; Paul Graydon
CC: nanog at nanog.org
Asunto: RE: Current IPv6 state of US Mobile Phone Carriers

iOS 5.1 includes SLAAC and DHCPv6 client.

Tina

> -----Original Message-----
> From: PC [mailto:paul4004 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 4:59 PM
> To: Paul Graydon
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Current IPv6 state of US Mobile Phone Carriers
> 
> 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
> >

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