Autonomous system
AS10116 HTCL-WAP-HK-AP Hutchison Telephone Company Limited
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Hutchison Telephone Company Limited (3 Hong Kong, WAP)
HTCL-WAP-HK-AP belongs to Hutchison Telephone Company Limited, the operator of 3 Hong Kong, CK Hutchison's mobile carrier. The WAP in the handle is the giveaway: this AS was registered for the Wireless Application Protocol gateway estate, the walled-garden proxy layer through which early mobile handsets reached the internet.
What it's used for
A single, narrowly scoped slice of 3's mobile infrastructure. The AS announces exactly one IPv4 prefix — 203.145.64.0/21, 2,048 addresses — and no IPv6. One /21 and nothing else is not a general-purpose carrier network; it is a dedicated function block. Addresses in this range should be read as operator-side mobile infrastructure and the gateway/NAT pool sitting in front of it, rather than as an ordinary subscriber pool.
Notable
This is mobile-operator space, though a specialised corner of it. The single observed BGP neighbour shows the AS is single-homed, almost certainly through Hutchison's own main network rather than to the wider internet directly — a strong sign of an internal-function AS rather than an independent network. The bulk of 3 Hong Kong's actual mobile data customers ride AS10118, the Internet Access Service AS, which carries forty-five thousand IPv4 addresses and a large IPv6 estate.
Interesting
WAP as a consumer technology is long dead, but the AS number, the /21 and the handle all survive it. Registry handles routinely outlive the products that motivated them, so treat WAP here as a historical label on live Hutchison mobile infrastructure, not as a claim about what the addresses do today.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS17794 | Hutchison Telephone Company Limited | 58 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 1.79K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HK | Hong Kong | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS10116- Registry name
- HTCL-WAP-HK-AP
- Registrant
- HGC Global Communications Limited
- Abuse contact
- abuse@hgcbroadband.com
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-06-22
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS10116
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 18 naming AS10116
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 447 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere