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by api 51 days ago
IT and telecom tend to have an ultra conservative if it’s not broke don’t fix it attitude. It won’t get deployed until enough customers ask for it or it’s required for something important.
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That's because they actually get paid for providing a reliable service, not for ipv6.
Access to only half the internet isn't exactly a reliable service. None of china, none of africa, only half of europe, none of south america....
Those are regions that have a lot of v6 support alongside v4, not v6-only.
Most v4 support is through a gateway. You can't tell the user's IP address from the wrong side of the gateway, for example - only the gateway's address. The user isn't on v4, the gateway is.
Yeah, so you still reach the user, it's just probably less efficient than the all-v6 route.

Edit: Oh, you mean if they want unsolicited inbound traffic? Sure, but that's only a thing for services. I mean you can have a default-allow firewall to home devices but really shouldn't.