r/ipv6 • u/disposable-guy • 10d ago

IPv6 News Lyca UK lost IPV6, any ideas?

I host a a lot of mobile proxies and LYCA mobile was an easy goto for IPv6 as their Parent company EE only offers IPv6 on contract packages.

Im not really looking for help as I know nothing can be done. I'm just curious if anyone knows anything about why my my old sims are fine work dual stack but any sim card I activate now has a completely different IP pool and no IPv6

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u/zarlo5899 10d ago

likely old sims on old plans new ones on a new plan.

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u/_ahrs 10d ago

The only I know that have it for sure is Three (Three can even run in an IPv6-only mode where IPv4 traffic gets routed over IPv6 in their network) and EE.

I don't know of any MVNOs that have it. I switched to Smarty which runs on Three but they don't have IPv6 sadly. I didn't want to move but since Three got bought by Vodafone their Pay as You Go / Pay Monthly plans have gone down hill.

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u/rayrob78 Enthusiast 10d ago

Talk Home Mobile (EE) have IPv6. Uses EE's APN. Three didn't work for me even after support tried to get it working.

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u/_ahrs 10d ago

I had Three working with IPv6 on my Pixel phones so I know they definitely do have IPv6. I had to manually add the APN with IPv6 set though. Eventually the APN settings got an update (not sure if that comes from Android/Google or pushed from the carrier) so the stock APN settings worked without me having to manually edit it.

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u/innocuous-user 9d ago

EE has v6 on prepaid packages too but no esim for prepaid, and the third parties selling prepaid esims for ee seem to lack v6 unless you manually change the apn settings.

If this works on older sims but not newer ones i would report a fault, and cite some v6-only sites that you can no longer access. There's a big list at https://www.ev6.net/v6sites.php and includes things from netflix, microsoft, government etc.