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I don't think that Canadian ISPs are in on this. In particular, almost all Canadian mobile customers are on Bell, TELUS, and Rogers. I'm on TELUS right now and I fail test-IPv6.com. Telus and Bell actually share much of their mobile network so I'm not sure Bell would fare better. And I was on Rogers as recently as 6 months ago and they didn't have IPv6 either. And my home ISP, a small fibre ISP, doesn't have IPv6.

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I'm on Fido/Rogers in Quebec/Ontario, and they have had IPv6 enabled for 1-2 years. Make sure that your APN settings enable IPv6 (in Android, there's an option for that).

Mobile is the main reason why Canada is >15% adoption on google-stats [1]. On DSL/cable, Rogers and Cogeco provide IPv6, as do smaller re-sellers such as Teksavvy on DSL, but otherwise big players such as Bell and Videotron have been dragging their feet and giving lame excuses.

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...

I tried a few months ago and can enable IPv6 on my LG V20 (on Telus LTE) and it does indeed pick up an IPv6 address but test-ipv6.com complains of MTU problems.

Sites did load over v6 but it was slow compared to v4.

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Anecdotally, I'm on Telus in Western Canada and I do have ipv6. 10/10 on that test.

LTE or DSL? I'm on LTE in Vancouver and it fails (and has consistently in the last 6 months).

Are you in Calgary? Telus always rolls out experiments in Calgary first. For example, until recently their only deployed GPON networks have been in Calgary subdivisions.

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