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Mobile e-commerce's big problem with IPv4 address shortages

A big problem is looming for mobile commerce (e-commerce on phone handsets) when suddenly PCS phone carriers, who run publically addressed 3G IPv4 networks, have to switch to an IPv4 NAT infrastructure.

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These carriers server over 50 million US customers on IPv4 global addresses. How many billions in infrastructure will that cost, and what will it interfere with? Its not a simple problem like web proxies in an enterprise network.

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