From the research I have been doing the only mobile operator I have found open to peering is Vodafone I hope this is helpful.
-----Original Message----- From: Cameron Byrne [mailto:cb.list6@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 2:33 PM To: Jared Geiger Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Mobile Operator Connectivity On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Jared Geiger <jared@compuwizz.net> wrote:
I would suggest getting on the GRX network. As an enterprise you should be able to get IPX service from any number of providers. Belgacom, Syniverse, and Sybase365 all offer IP data service onto the GRX. Then you aren't limited to just the US carriers, you'll be able to reach most all carriers globally.
Folks, GRX is for data roaming between mobile providers, not for connecting eye balls and content. Only mobile operators are members of the GRX, not customers of mobile operators or content of any sort. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPRS_Roaming_Exchange Here's an example, I am a T-Mobile USA subscriber. I travel to Canada and roam on to Rogers's network. When i start a data session on my mobile phone, Rogers passes all the data traffic back to T-Mobile via the GRX peering exchange. When in Canada, my HTTP traffic does not exit in Canada, it is tunneled back via GRX peering to T-Mobile in the USA and exit's in the USA. The roamed into network (Roger's in my example) is just an access network to reach the network that i subscriber to (T-Mobile USA). As someone else may have noted, your best best is to figure out where the mobile providers peer out on the Internet and purchase access in the same region and ISP as the mobile provider. Also, as someone else noted, some mobile providers do a lot of aggregation that adds latency, other mobile providers are more distributed and punt to the ISP closer to the user. Regards, Cameron ======== http://groups.google.com/group/tmoipv6beta ========