The wireless operators in US seem to continue to grow their networks. Verizon wireless allocated a /10 or about 4 million addresses in December 2008. Yesterday, it was Sprints turn.  Sprint allocated 173.128.0.0 – 173.149.255.255 (1 x /12, 1 x /14 and 1 x /15) totaling about 1.5 Million addresses.

A few days ago Verizon Wireless allocated a /10 network from ARIN = about 4,2 million addresses. This actually bumped both mine and Hustons exhaustion model about 10 days earlier.

arin|US|ipv4|174.192.0.0|4194304|20081216|allocated

I like the comment field if you do a Whois lookup on 174.192.0.0, I guess they forgot to update it to 6 million.

Whois 174.192.0.0
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Comment:    Verizon Wireless currently has 44.3 Million
Comment:    subscribers with 2.097 Million IP addresses allocated.

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