Autonomous system
AS29975 VODACOM-
Mobile AFRINIC
Summary
Vodacom South Africa
isp mobile eyeball
Vodacom — one of South Africa's largest mobile operators, majority-owned by the Vodafone Group.
What it's used for
- Mobile voice and data for a large South African subscriber base, plus fixed-wireless and enterprise connectivity.
Notable
- A major "eyeball" network — addresses are typically mobile devices behind carrier-grade NAT.
- Competes with MTN, Cell C, and Telkom in South Africa, and operates elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa.
Interesting
- Vodacom's M-Pesa and other mobile-money and data services make it a primary internet on-ramp in markets where fixed broadband is scarce.
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 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS36994 | Vodacom | 7,633 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-29, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 32 prefixes · 1.75M addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 32 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS29975- Registry name
- ORG-VA67-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Vodacom
- Registered
- 2005-02-21
- Last changed
- 2021-04-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 91% valid · 116 valid, 11 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 106 authorising AS29975
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 127 of 127 announcements
- Route objects
- 97 naming AS29975
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: 448 networks and 1,849 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