Autonomous system
AS29357 WATANIYATELECOM-AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Ooredoo Kuwait
mobile isp residential business
WATANIYATELECOM-AS is operated by Ooredoo Kuwait, formerly known as Wataniya Telecom.
What it's used for
- The address space carries mobile and broadband services, evidenced by netnames such as
KW-WATANIYA-20110110,WTC-MIP-1,WTC-MIP-2, andHS-WT-2. - With 209,920 IPv4 addresses announced across 39 prefixes and 28 observed neighbours, the ratio indicates a large access network serving end-users rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- Registrants for the largest prefixes include
NATIONAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY K.S.C.P.andAbuse-C Role for OKW, aligning with the current operator identity. - Wataniya Telecom rebranded to Ooredoo in 2014 after becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qatar Telecom (Qtel) in 2012.
- The inventory includes a mix of large /16 and /17 blocks alongside numerous smaller /21 and /22 prefixes, reflecting a subdivided corporate and access 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 | 80.81.197.33 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.230.145 |
| UAE-IX | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 185.1.8.29 |
| DE-CIX Marseille | Marseille, France | 185.1.47.139 |
| Manama-IX | Manama, Bahrain | 77.69.248.31 |
| Kuwait Internet Exchange | Kuwait City, Kuwait | 194.54.136.11 |
| Doha IX | Doha, Qatar | 194.42.47.74 |
Transit providers
12 upstream, 6 downstream and 30 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS6453 | TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC | 4,691 |
| AS6939 | Hurricane Electric LLC | 3,040 |
| AS8966 | EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC | 1,642 |
| AS1299 | Arelion Sweden AB | 1,311 |
| AS3356 | Level 3 Parent, LLC | 1,221 |
| AS6762 | TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A. | 1,152 |
| AS15412 | Flag Telecom UK Limited | 803 |
| AS174 | Cogent Communications, LLC | 773 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 36 prefixes · 210K addresses IPv6 93 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KW | Kuwait | 129 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS29357- Registry name
- WATANIYATELECOM-AS
- Registrant
- OOREDOOKUWAIT-MNT
- Abuse contact
- ripe-ooredookuwait-abuse@ooredoo.com.kw
- Registered
- 2003-08-15
- Last changed
- 2021-06-30
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 376 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 232 authorising AS29357
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 376 of 376 announcements
- Route objects
- 1,324 naming AS29357
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: 440 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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