French telecom authority Arcep published its latest dashboard on the transition to IPv6 in France, showing that industry players are not moving fast enough to deal with the expected shortage of IPv4 addresses. The regulator is urging operators and the wider internet ecosystem to step up their efforts and accelerate their deployment plans. It has also renewed a call to join a new IPv6 task force, recently created by Arcep in partnership with Internet Society France.
Free and Orange have remained well ahead of rivals Bouygues Telecom and SFR in rolling out IPv6 across their fixed networks. At end-June, Free led with 80 percent of customers already active on IPv6, followed by Orange with 68 percent. Bouygues Telecom and SFR continued to trail at a distance with rates of 20 percent and 7 percent respectively.
On mobile networks, the roll-out of IPv6 by the main operators has advanced at a much slower pace, with the exception of Bouygues Telecom. The proportion of customers active on IPv6 was close to zero for Orange, Free Mobile and SFR, as of the end of June. Bouygues Telecom made significant progress with customers using Android devices (nearly 80 percent of them already active), but had yet to make a move from IPv6-ready to active use for those with iPhones.
Source: https://www.telecompaper.com/news/arcep-renews-call-to-address-shortage-of-ipv4-addresses--1316540