Autonomous system
AS12079 CELLCO-PART
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Verizon Wireless (Cellco Partnership)
enterprise mobile legacy
Cellco Partnership is the legal entity that does business as Verizon Wireless, and this AS carries its corporate and IT space rather than its subscriber handsets.
What it's used for
- Internal enterprise networking for the wireless business. The bulk of the space sits under the netnames
VZW-ITandVZW-IT-2, which is corporate IT addressing, not the consumer pool.
Notable
- Only eight IPv4 prefixes for 165,000 addresses, against three observed BGP neighbours. Verizon's consumer mobile traffic lives in far larger autonomous systems; this one has the compact shape of a company network buying transit from its own parent.
- The IPv6 side is proportionally much richer, with seven prefixes out of
2620::/23— the ARIN direct-assignment range that organisations request for their own use.
Interesting
- One block still carries the netname
GTENW-IGSNET. GTE merged with Bell Atlantic in 2000 to create Verizon, so a quarter-century later the registry is still describing part of this network by the name of a company that no longer exists.
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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 8 prefixes · 165K addresses IPv6 7 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 15 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12079- Registry name
- CELLCO-PART
- Registrant
- Verizon Business
- Abuse contact
- abuse@verizon.com
- Registered
- 1999-03-17
- Last changed
- 2022-05-31
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 6% valid · 1 valid, 16 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS12079
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 17 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS12079
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: 442 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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