Autonomous system
AS10980 STAFFORD
Residential ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Stafford Communications, Inc.
isp legacy
STAFFORD is Stafford Communications, a locally owned fixed-wireless internet provider based in Gronlid, Saskatchewan, serving rural east-central Saskatchewan. Despite the American-registered address space, this is a Canadian rural eyeball network.
What it's used for
RIS sees 14 announced IPv4 prefixes totalling 3,072 addresses, no IPv6, and 4 observed neighbours. A handful of upstreams and three thousand addresses is a small regional access network, not a carrier.
The reverse DNS is unusually informative. Sampled addresses come back as 198.167.166.5.FGLNSK.STAFFCOMM.NET, 198.167.165.5.SCTYSK.STAFFCOMM.NET and 198.167.167.5.NPWNSK.STAFFCOMM.NET: per-IP PTRs under the operator's own domain, tagged with site codes that all end in SK (Saskatchewan) and clearly correspond to individual tower or community sites. A second group reads 208.77.142.5.4GLTE.staffcomm.net, naming the LTE access technology. Those hostnames describe a fixed-wireless subscriber network: each block maps to a tower footprint, and the customers on the other end of those LTE radios are rural homes and small businesses. As always, the technology in the PTR names the mechanism, not the customer type; here the mechanism is last-mile radio.
Notable
- The company has publicly partnered with SaskTel to extend coverage and speeds in rural Saskatchewan, and serves on the order of a thousand-plus subscribers.
- The site codes in rDNS make this AS a rare case where the routing data alone reveals the operator's physical footprint, one tower at a time.
- A Canadian operator announcing ARIN
74.,198.167.and208.77.space is a good reminder that address-block geography is not network geography.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| YXEIX Saskatoon Internet Exchange | Saskatoon, Canada | 206.71.11.14 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 2.82K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10980- Registry name
- STAFFORD
- Registrant
- Stafford Communications, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- noc@staffcomm.com
- Registered
- 2012-10-03
- Last changed
- 2012-10-03
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- STAFFORD
- Also known as
- STAFFORD
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-STAFFORD- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- http://www.staffcomm.com
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 57% valid · 8 valid, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS10980
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 93% registered · 13 of 14 announcements
- Route objects
- 21 naming AS10980
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 442 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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