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There are far fewer people who have a contract that specifies that they will get a public IPv4 address on mobile.

On wired, just about every business account is assumed to have a public address and often a static one. In addition, a lot of gaming doesn't work behind carrier grade NAT.

In the mobile world, this expectation of public (or even static) IPv4 addresses is almost completely absent.




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