On Sat, 26 Dec 2015, Mark Tinka wrote:
One network in southern Africa have upgraded 70% of their network to 4G as part of an enhancement exercise in the last 16x months, and provide 98% 3G coverage across their country of operation. But not a peep re: IPv6.
Out of the 34 major mobile providers in Sweden, only one has a single peep regarding IPv6 for regular customers. All of these have ubiquitus 4G coverage and have had this for 4-5 years.
In general, in the progressive African countries, one would be hard-pressed to get anything less than 3G coverage in major business districts/cities.
Well, if most providers in Europe can't get this done, I am not surprised that the African ones won't get it done either. Remember that the european ones operate in an environment where RIPE went into last /8 policy almost 4 years ago, and still most of them haven't deployed any IPv6 at all yet.
IPv6 only operation for mobile is going to become fairly easy in the next few years due to the entire ecosystem maturing in this aspect, so my guess is that we'll start to see a lot more IPv6 over the next few years in mobile.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swm...@swm.pp.se
