State-controlled media on Tuesday covered the proceedings of the third China IPv6 Innovation and Development Conference, at which officials revealed that as of May 2024 the Middle Kingdom was home to 794 million users of the protocol, and that 64.56 percent of mobile traffic – plus 21.21 percent of fixed network traffic – is carried on networks that employ it.
In July last year, the previous edition of the conference delivered news that 763 million active IPv6 users could be found as of May 2023 – up from the 697 million active users China’s State Council counted as of July 2022.
Via The Register
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