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Verizon Refuses To Provide Complete IPv6

Posted by kdawson on from the no-routing-around-it dept.

Glendale2x writes "I'm a progressive sort of guy and I want to go full dual-stack, IPv6 for the future, etc. However I recently tried to turn up a new Verizon circuit with IPv6 (after a 6-month fiber install process), and to my chagrin the order they accepted back in May they're now saying is against their policy to provide. They're missing around 29% of the IPv6 internet and refuse to carry it. Tell me again how we're supposed to encourage IPv6 adoption in the face of a huge black hole like this?"

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  1. bullshit by shentino · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They'd damn well better give you a full refund if that v6 was an essential part of the contract.

    If verizon's pulling this shit AND trying to keep your money they need their asses spanked in court, big time.

    1. Re:bullshit by NoYob · · Score: 5, Insightful
      I wonder if a complaint or enough of them to the FCC would get them to comply.

      But yeah, definitely take any and all legal recourse.

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      It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
    2. Re:bullshit by Stolovaya · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If there was any realistic way to be a competitor, sure. But it's a pretty locked market.

  2. Re:I don't think IPv6 is really the future any mor by mysidia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IPv4 Exhaustion is expected approximately 734 days from today's date. That is just about 2 years.

    It takes a lot longer than 2 years to develop a networking standard, and gain acceptance from the community, and no alternative has even been proposed.

    There are two solutions on the table: IPv6 and IPv4 with carrier grade NAT.

    It's going to be one of those things, in two years.

  3. I wonder by DaMattster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    if the reason that the big boys don't want to go to IPv6 is that they stand to lose an additional money maker. They can charge for publicly available IP addresses with IPv4. In IPv6, every address would be public. This might explain carrier reluctance to make the change. It gives them one less way to nickle and dime the consumer.