Autonomous system
AS16232 ASN-TIM Service Provider
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Telecom Italia
telecom mobile isp
One and three-quarter million addresses in nine blocks, and not one of them has a name in reverse DNS.
What it's used for
- A national carrier's network. Ten prefixes announced from Italy, one of them IPv6, one million seven hundred and seventy-seven thousand six hundred and sixty-four addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The nine IPv4 blocks are enormous and few. The largest holds half a million addresses; the smallest is the only one under sixty-five thousand.
- Every block uses the same netname scheme without exception: a country code, three letters for the mobile brand, and a full date. The dates run across twelve years.
- The contacts are identical on all nine: an engineering staff role naming the brand, the parent company, and an abuse role. Nothing varies between registrations.
- The AS handle appends two words describing what the company is, so the field reads as a label and a job title joined together.
- Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Silence in reverse DNS across a million and a half addresses is the normal shape for a mobile network. The addresses are handed to handsets, they change constantly, and a name per address would describe nothing that stays true for an hour.
- Nine registrations for a network this size is unusually tidy. A carrier that got its space in a few large grants never had to stitch together the scattered blocks that fragment its smaller peers.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS3269 | Telecom Italia S.p.A. | 1,211 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 19 prefixes · 1.78M addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IT | Italy | 20 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS16232- Registry name
- ASN-TIM
- Registrant
- Telecom Italia S.p.A.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@telecomitalia.it
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2019-05-28
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 21 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16232
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 21 of 21 announcements
- Route objects
- 61 naming AS16232
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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