Autonomous system
AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-PK Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited
Unclassified ARIN NSP
Summary
PTCL
telecom residential national isp
The AS handle PKTELECOM-AS-PK is held by Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space carries netnames
PTCLBB-PKandPTCL, indicating broadband and general telecommunications services. - With 3,721,472 IPv4 addresses announced across 599 prefixes and 602 observed neighbours, the high neighbour count relative to the address inventory suggests a role involving significant transit or peering, consistent with a national telecommunications provider.
Notable
- All sampled registrants align with the announcer, identified as
Pakistan Telecommuication company limited(sic) under the IRTIRT-PTCLBB-PK. - The inventory is dominated by large /15 and /16 blocks in the 39.0.0.0/8 and 182.0.0.0/8 ranges, reflecting a substantial national address estate.
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 7 exchanges in 7 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.196.17 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.225.133 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.208.254 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.228.83 |
| DE-CIX New York | New York, United States | 206.82.104.236 |
| UAE-IX | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 185.1.8.136 |
| Pakistan Internet Exchange (PIE) Karachi | Karachi, Pakistan | 58.181.127.1 |
Transit providers
48 upstream, 100 downstream and 216 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 604 prefixes · 3.72M addresses IPv6 18 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| PK | Pakistan | 622 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS17557- Registry name
- PKTELECOM-AS-PK
- Registrant
- Pakistan Telecommuication company limited
- Abuse contact
- abuse.irt@ptcl.net
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-12-13
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- PTCL
- Also known as
- PTCL;Pakistan Internet Exchange (PIE),PTCL;
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
APNIC::AS-SETPTCL- Present at
- 8 exchanges
- Facilities
- 11 facilities
- Website
- http://www.ptcl.com.pk/
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
- 99.5% valid · 1,301 valid, 4 with no ROA 2 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 104 authorising AS17557
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.9% registered · 1,306 of 1,307 announcements
- Route objects
- 31,503 naming AS17557
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: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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