IPv6 support on Virgin media
Does anyone know whether (and if so when) Virgin plan to implement IPv6 on its network?
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Good news indeed. According to the update at the IPv6 Council meeting it's been down to the deployment of iOS 12. This seems to have 464XLAT support for tethering which was the last piece of the IPv6-only puzzle EE needed (apps have been IPv6-only capable for some time now).
That's very interesting, thank you davefiddes! It's also a bit unfortunate for EE though if they are so dependent on a single 3rd party handset provider.
Thinking about Virgin's forthcoming IPv6 service, I can't help wondering what IPv6 usage counts Virgin will be clocking up on the day that IPv6 is released. APNIC gives us a number of stats in addition to IPv6 counts, and one of the more important ones is total usage count (which APNIC labels as "Users"), meaning the sum of IPv4 and IPv6 counts. If we plot (Total_Users*100/IPv6_Users) we get a very interesting graph of percentage IPv6 normalized to the size of an ISP's population:
From this we see that Sky's bumpy IPv6 curve straightens out beautifully quite close to 90%, so it's clear that Sky's service is almost completely IPv6-based now and the fluctuations in IPv6 counts just reflect the varying size of their customer base. It also reveals how badly BT's IPv6 usage is impacted by not being able to run IPv6 on their older Home Home 5, which is still their most widespread CPE. This problem is probably what's denying IPv6 to some 60% of BT's customer base.
And so, it makes me wonder what to expect on the graphs when Virgin takes the curtain. If VM rolls out IPv6 to Hub 3.0 and all later equipment then I think Virgin is going to be really high up on both graphs alongside Sky, leaving BT and EE far behind. The normalized percentage graph will tell us how widely Virgin's CPEs can accept IPv6-capable firmware.
It's going to be very interesting. 
Morgaine.
There's a typo in my preceding message 705: I'm not not plotting "(Total_Users * 100 / IPv6_Users)" as I wrote, but "(IPv6_Users * 100 / Total_Users)", since the intention is to normalize the IPv6 counts to ISP populations. IPv6_Users is always smaller than the combined (IPv4 + IPv6) count so the percentage we plot is always less than 100%, and would only reach 100% if the usage of IPv4 were to drop to zero.