AS11259 ANGOLATELECOM

AS11259 is Angola Telecom, the state-owned incumbent telecommunications operator of Angola, headquartered in Luanda. It is one of the country's principal carriers of fixed-line and internet service, and the AS is its main routed network.

What it's used for

RIS observes 71 IPv4 prefixes carrying roughly 140,288 addresses, one IPv6 prefix (2c0f:faf0::/32), and 14 observed neighbours. That is the profile of a national incumbent rather than an enterprise: a large, mostly contiguous address estate carrying subscriber and business access, with enough BGP adjacencies to reach international transit and regional peers without being a global wholesale carrier itself.

The address estate is dominated by AFRINIC space around 197.216.0.0/15 and 197.217.0.0/17, deaggregated into a long tail of /22s and /23s. That deaggregation pattern is how an access network slices allocations across regions, POPs and product lines. Two older blocks sit outside it: 41.74.240.0/20, registered to ORG-AT1-AFRINIC (Angola Telecom), and 66.110.112.0/20, an ARIN block registered as ANGOLATELECOM-TGB — legacy space acquired before AFRINIC's African allocations were the default.

Notable

The prefix registrant lookup is the part that needs reading carefully. Several of the 197.216/197.217 blocks come back with an org that is an individual's name rather than a company. That is an AFRINIC record-keeping pattern, where the RDAP entity surfaced for an inetnum is its named contact person, not a separate corporate holder. It is not the signature of IP leasing, which requires several unrelated companies registering space across multiple RIRs at once. The covering allocations are Angola Telecom's own.

Interesting

IPv6 is present but minimal: a single /32 against 71 IPv4 routes. The v6 block is allocated and announced, so the network is reachable over IPv6, but the imbalance suggests deployment has not gone much beyond the routing table.