Categories
News

27% of Belgian users have IPv6… but nearly no content…

Some of you have probably noticed this huge steps: more than 1 Belgian users out of 4 has IPv6 enabled by default and uses IPv6 to reach Google (see graph below).

IPv6 users.png
IPv6 users.png

APnic labs also measures the same thing:

countries.png
countries.png

It appears as mainly driven VOO (= Brutele), Telenet but also Belnet, Belgacom and EDPnet… and this is without any mobile provider (who are late in the game compared to Poland, US, UK, …) and without big enterprises (as far as I know).

countries.png
countries.png

This also means that content providers should really move to IPv6, their eyeballs (= users/customers) are ready.

Now, to be honest, our country is on vacation mode and the weather is not really fantastic, meaning no business users (we are on vacation), no mobile users (we stay home)… So in September when business will start again, with many more business users, I am afraid that our IPv6 penetration will go slightly down…

Anyway, while we are ahead worldwide regarding the number of fixed line residential users, we still have to work hard to move the Internet in Belgium to the XXIth century

-éric