Where to get IPv4 block these day

Fri Aug 6 19:36:12 UTC 2021

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> IPhones handsets this part of the world are not common handsets to
> majority of the end-users who are not middle class folk and even most
> middle class folk still settle for cost effective Android handsets.
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Android has had IPv6 support for what,10 years now? (Ignoring the SLAAC vs
DHCPv6 Holy Wars intentionally.)

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 11:56 AM Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:

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> On Fri, 6 Aug 2021, 18:35 Fred Baker, <fredbaker.ietf at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > On Aug 6, 2021, at 8:22 AM, Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
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>> > Do majority of smart handsets OS today support v6?
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>> > Majority of people I know (due to economic factors) own lowend android
>> handsets with no support for v6. This group forms majority of eyeballs that
>> contribute revenue to local Telecoms whose network is heavily CGNAT.
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>> Handsets - Cameron would be in a better place than I to discuss this, but
>> certainly anything used to connect to his network (T-Mobile) does, and
>> enables access with IPv4 turned off. That includes at least iPhone (the
>> handset I use to access his network),
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> IPhones handsets this part of the world are not common handsets to
> majority of the end-users who are not middle class folk and even most
> middle class folk still settle for cost effective Android handsets.
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> and Android. https://thirdinternet.com/ipv6-on-mobile-devices/
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> For a tech savvy end-user the above tutorial is useful and only useful if
> the Teleco has made the effort to provide v6.
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> Most data bundles are auto configured with v4  and v6 disabled for the
> obvious reasons that is CGNAT still rocks.
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>> As to other systems, Apple and Linux platforms, and more recently
>> Windows, supports IPv6, and has for quite a while. Issues there tend to be
>> in specific applications (due to the socket interface).
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> Ack but this is for only those tech savvy end-users with keep interest for
> v6.
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> NAT still works and misconceptions of NAT providing some level of unknown
> security are still widely common.
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> Noah
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