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Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:53:23 +0100 (CET)
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Thomas Habets wrote:
Really.
Exactly. Can we PLEASE kill the myth that Android and iPhone has IPv6 support for mobile side. PLEASE. None do, and there are no publically available roadmaps when this might happen on either OSes.
There are exactly two types of devices (afaik) that support IPv6 for mobile, and that's Nokia phones using Symbian and Maemo (afaik only N900).
No other vendor has any IPv6 mobile side support, and even though Microsoft did the right thing for IPv6 on Vista and Win7, they've dropped the ball on Windows Phone 7 and have no IPv6 support there. I was very disappointed when I learnt that fact. I've been told it's to some extent a Qualcomm baseband issue. There are also no USB dongles with IPv6 support that I am aware of.
This means that the incentive for mobile operators to support IPv6 is very close to zero even though a lot of them could do it fairly easily.
I have native IPv6 in my Nokia N900, it works just fine within "my" own network, ie without roaming.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
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