Meanwhile in Australia I called my ISP to enable IPv6 and they asked me to justify why I needed it.
Because "it's the Internet" and has been a standard since the year 2000 doesn't seem to be sufficient reason to bother...
Because "it's the Internet" and has been a standard since the year 2000 doesn't seem to be sufficient reason to bother...
Even if it's not strictly true, that seems like a solid justification. Though obviously that won't work for the general public.
You can't avoid them because they're not a retail telco, they provide wholesale/bulk services to apartment buildings with 15-year lock in contracts.