Re: Current IPv6 state of US Mobile Phone Carriers

[PC <paul4004 () gmail com>]

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 () 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 () 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