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Mobile networks (3g/4g) in India operate on ipv6. Thanks to Jio everyone and their dog has a 4g connection nowadays.

That also makes sense considering the sheer amount of people. With that many devices and people, it just makes more sense than trying to NAT everything at the carrier level.

I wonder if China's ISPs are doing the same thing?

I speculate this is not true for China. ISPs in China have to deal with country-wide censorship system which has to be upgraded to support IPv6 traffic. This might be the reason why China has a low IPv6 traffic.

A year back the party decreed a plan to have all Internet users on IPv6 by 2025, with a quarter of them already by the end of this year [0]. There was a test rollout back at the beginning of the summer [1]. I guess we might see a huge rollout before the end of the year to meet the deadline. There's been a slight rebound already [2][3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_deployment#China

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/ipv6-in-china/

[2] https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/AS9808

[3] http://www.worldipv6launch.org/apps/ipv6week/measurement/ima...

Yes. That's what I thought too.

A quick google search gave me this blog. https://blog.apnic.net/2017/02/07/reliance-jio-boosts-india-...

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