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Why Mobile Operators Don't Talk IPv6

1:00 AM I chat to LR's Carol Wilson about how mobile operators are keeping quiet on IPv6 even as they work hard on the protocol
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jeffbrl
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Monday July 18, 2011 5:03:47 PM
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I find it odd that T-Mobile gets a passing mention in the video. The company has been conducting an open IPv6 friendly user trial for a year and a half. Technical representatives from T-Mobile have been vocal about plans and transition technology at technical forums such as Google's 2010 IPv6 Implentors Conference (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GlRgaFriYU#t=15m38s).

At the corporate level, you may not see much about IPv6. This is because the operator's customer base doesn't care about IPv4/v6.

Jeff L.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dan Jones
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Friday July 15, 2011 5:27:40 PM
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Well they are working on testing it, they just don't really want to say anything more than very high level statements at the moment it seems to me. Why? I don't know for sure, since carriers don't really want to engage on this at the moment.

Chomsky
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Friday July 15, 2011 4:34:21 PM
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OK, so they are not doing v6--but you did not tell me why not. Not enlightening.

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