Autonomous system
AS11727 BMTS
Residential ARIN
Summary
Bruce Telecom
isp legacy
BMTS is Bruce Telecom, the incumbent telephone and broadband operator for Bruce County on the Lake Huron shore of Ontario, headquartered in Tiverton. The handle preserves its former name, the Bruce Municipal Telephone System, and the operator's domain is still bmts.com.
What it's used for
RIS sees 31 IPv4 prefixes carrying 17,664 addresses, one IPv6 /32 (2604:5340::/32), and four observed neighbours. Four adjacencies against a five-figure address estate is a textbook eyeball network: the addresses exist to be handed to subscribers, and the network buys a small number of upstreams rather than selling transit to anyone. A wholesale carrier of the same address size would show two orders of magnitude more neighbours.
The reverse DNS is unusually explicit about what the space carries. Sampled addresses across 216.183, 173.241 and 209.240 come back as PPPoE-216-183-144-5.bmts.com, PPPoE-209-240-120-5.bmts.com and so on, over and over. PPPoE is the session protocol used to authenticate DSL and fibre subscribers, so these are consumer and small-business access pools named by the mechanism that hands them out. That is the access technology, not the customer type, but combined with an incumbent county telco as the holder it points one way.
Notable
Almost every prefix is registered in ARIN to Bruce Telecom itself (BMTS-NET, BMTS-NET2, BMTS-NET3), so holder, registrant and announcer agree across the inventory. One small block, 204.19.18.0/24, is registered to Newlink Telecommunications — a single /24 among 31 prefixes, which reads as a carried customer or partner block rather than anything that changes the character of the network. The PTR clock.bmts.com on 216.183.128.5 is the operator's own time server sitting on subscriber-facing space.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-21, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 14 prefixes · 17.66K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 15 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11727- Registry name
- BMTS
- Registrant
- Bruce Telecom
- Abuse contact
- netadmin@brucetelecom.com
- Registered
- 1998-12-01
- Last changed
- 2014-04-11
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 81% valid · 26 valid, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS11727
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 32 of 32 announcements
- Route objects
- 27 naming AS11727
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-22. 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