ACT now giving private IPv4s in Delhi

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Airtel Static IP
ACT Broadband
In the end of July 2020 my ACT's broadband service was down for almost two days. They kept telling me that there is a fibercut in my area. I knew they are fooling me as fibercut restoration should not take more than 4-5 hours. In fact they were migrating service to CGNAT, but that should have done it with some better planning and should have not caused ~48 hours downtime
When the service came up post ~48 hours, I noticed that the IP allocated to my router was private IP. Has this happened in Delhi only?? What about other cities??
Due to this behavior, I added Airtel connection and downgraded ACT plan to minimum possible. Now Airtel is my primary and ACT is failover

Following is what I get now

Code: 
panks@USG-Office:~$ show interfaces pppoe pppoe1
pppoe1: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1492 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 100
    link/ppp
    inet 10.194.58.127 peer 10.194.0.1/32 scope global pppoe1
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

    RX:  bytes    packets     errors    dropped    overrun      mcast
       3098928      18958          0          0          0          0
    TX:  bytes    packets     errors    dropped    carrier collisions
       1990145      15784          0          0          0          0

panks@USG-Office:~$
 
some people from Lucknow also reported CG-NAT on ACT. I guess ACT have shortage of IPv4 addresses. They’re a relatively new ISP which started small, so it makes sense
 
IMO ISPs should implement IPv6 PD and start giving public IPv6 addresses along with IPv4. That way IPv6 penetration will improve and load on their CGNAT system will reduce.. I am not sure why no one is trying to implement IPv6.
Operators in US / Korea have been doing this since more than 2 years
 
PawanKumar said:
@panks21 India is among the countries with highest IPv6 adoption


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Airtel and BSNL are two big ISPs without any significant IPv6 adoption
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Yeah thats mostly because of mobile providers.
 

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@JB701 I second that.. JIO started their mobile service with IPv6 only initially and moved to Dual stack later
Airtel started giving dual stack on their mobile devices two years ago.. That accounts to ~800M subscribers on IPv6 if all connects. Off course one of the highest in the world. No brainer.
The internet IPv6 table is still at 94K prefixes as of today (50% are /48)
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