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How many mobile phones made per day that support some form of internet access and how many of those use IPV6?

Scary thought is it not!

The first real opertunity to move to IPV6 in any way would be mobile smartphones and there like and yet that is not happening. It realy is a case of the ISP's and mobile telco's that need to start initiating the IPV6 move and until they do nobody will be dragged into following.

Maybe if it was illegal to sell devices that don't at least support IPV6. But of a messy situation when you can buy devices made brand new that still dont offer IPV6 support, criminal realy.

Still when you look into the history of British railways and the better modern alternatives you can see how some legacy designs just carry on with there limitations of capacity oversight.

Another aspect is cunsumers have in many respects forgotten how to complain to a company and let there frustrations out on the internet in area's were the companys offering the services will completely fail to notice and allow you to complain and vent of without them even knowing or indeed having to care.

How many of you have asked there internet service provider if they support IPV6 or indeed what there plans are to offer it? Reason I ask is that I can bet it's lower than 1 in 100 or indeed 1 in 100,000. I can't even recall any one of my friends or anybody I know or have dealing with ever mentioning they had made such an enquiry. I know I have, please tell me I'm not alone at least.



Verizon and T-Mobile are running quite a bit of IPv6 but nobody noticed since it just works.




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