Autonomous system
AS15165 MTC-LRCOMMUNICATIONS
Unclassified ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Mutual Telephone Company
isp telecom business
The netnames number themselves by the third octet of the block they label.
What it's used for
- A rural telephone company's network. Thirteen IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 prefix announced from the United States, with nine observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Three blocks carry netnames ending in a number that matches the third octet of the block itself, so the label is derivable from the address rather than chosen.
- Two other blocks use the holder's initials, one with a counter and one with the protocol version appended.
- One announced block is registered to a separate fibre company under its own netname, which is a wholesale carrier's block riding on this AS number.
- One registry lookup failed, so nothing can be said about who holds that block.
- Thirteen of eighteen sampled addresses answered, all in the same form: the address written into the host label with hyphens, under a domain that matches neither the company name nor the first word of the AS handle.
- The routing history begins in 2007.
Interesting
- Numbering a netname by the third octet works until two blocks in different ranges share that octet, at which point two unrelated assignments collide on one label.
- The reverse domain is a third name for this company, distinct from both the registrant and the AS handle. Customers see that one; the registry shows the others.
- Nine upstreams for thirteen small blocks suggests a company buying transit from several neighbours rather than depending on one.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Internet Exchange | Kansas City, United States | 206.51.7.82 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 13 prefixes · 4.86K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 14 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS15165- Registry name
- MTC-LRCOMMUNICATIONS
- Registrant
- Mutual Telephone Company
- Abuse contact
- noc@mtc4me.com
- Registered
- 2011-06-10
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Mutual Telephone Company
- Also known as
- LR Communications Inc
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-MTC- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Website
- http://www.mtc4me.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
- 77% valid · 10 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 10 authorising AS15165
- ASPA
- 2 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 13 of 13 announcements
- Route objects
- 19 naming AS15165
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: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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