> You do realise that mobile usage is a subset of the Internet and the Internet is not just about end user connectivity.
I would argue that mobile usage is the primary way that many people access the Internet in their personal lives, as evidenced by fact that IPv6 usage goes up on weekends, when people are probably not browsing stuff on work laptops.
> But you still haven't addressed my original point, how has IPv6 averted the impending (at the time) IP exhaustion problem?
If T-Mobile US could not offload a lot of traffic to 'straight' IPv6 they'd need a lot more publicly accessible IPv4 addresses. As it stands now they can only have their IPv4 addresses assigned to CG-NAT boxes, but without IPv6 they'd have to have way more IPv4 to assign to handsets, or given handsets 10/8 or 100.64/10 and have may more IPv4 on their CG-NAT hardware. (They'd also need way beefier CG-NAT hardware to handle higher loads.)
See also for example Vodafone moving to IPv6 to deal with IPv4 address shortages:
I would argue that mobile usage is the primary way that many people access the Internet in their personal lives, as evidenced by fact that IPv6 usage goes up on weekends, when people are probably not browsing stuff on work laptops.
> But you still haven't addressed my original point, how has IPv6 averted the impending (at the time) IP exhaustion problem?
If T-Mobile US could not offload a lot of traffic to 'straight' IPv6 they'd need a lot more publicly accessible IPv4 addresses. As it stands now they can only have their IPv4 addresses assigned to CG-NAT boxes, but without IPv6 they'd have to have way more IPv4 to assign to handsets, or given handsets 10/8 or 100.64/10 and have may more IPv4 on their CG-NAT hardware. (They'd also need way beefier CG-NAT hardware to handle higher loads.)
See also for example Vodafone moving to IPv6 to deal with IPv4 address shortages:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CzFkvJ2Kxs
Or how Sky wouldn't have been able to create a new ISP without it because of a lack of available IPv4:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03cwFIPdgQ8
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cg3dLR95wY