Autonomous system
AS29465 VCG-AS
Mobile RIPE
Summary
MTN Nigeria
isp mobile eyeball
MTN Nigeria — the largest mobile operator in Nigeria and the biggest single market of the pan-African MTN Group.
What it's used for
- Mobile voice and data for a very large Nigerian subscriber base, plus fixed-wireless and business connectivity.
Notable
- A major "eyeball" network — addresses are overwhelmingly mobile devices behind carrier-grade NAT, so one public IP can map to many users.
- Part of MTN Group, headquartered in South Africa and operating across Africa and the Middle East.
Interesting
- In much of Nigeria mobile is the primary way people reach the internet, making carriers like MTN the dominant on-ramp rather than fixed broadband.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.216.148.33 |
| AMS-IX Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.60.58.89 |
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 256 prefixes · 605K addresses IPv6 33 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NG | Nigeria | 289 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS29465- Registry name
- VCG-AS
- Registrant
- MTN NIGERIA Communication limited
- Abuse contact
- abuse@mtnnigeria.net
- Registered
- 2003-09-17
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 98% valid · 630 valid, 10 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS29465
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 640 of 640 announcements
- Route objects
- 2,313 naming AS29465
Reputation
Classification and threat
Mobile Cellular carrier. Addresses are shared by many handsets via CGNAT.
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 1,773 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