Autonomous system
AS327693 ECHO-SP
Mobile AFRINIC
Summary
MTN Nigeria
isp mobile eyeball
MTN Nigeria (MTN-NIGERIA) — the Nigerian operating company of the pan-African MTN Group, and one of the largest mobile operators in Nigeria.
What it's used for
- Mobile data (2G/3G/4G/5G) for a very large Nigerian subscriber base, plus fixed-wireless and business connectivity.
Notable
- A large "eyeball" network — addresses here are typically mobile devices behind carrier-grade NAT, so one public IP maps to many users and geo is coarse.
- Part of MTN Group, the South Africa-headquartered operator active across many African markets.
Interesting
- Nigeria is MTN Group's single biggest market by subscribers.
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 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.9.221 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.18 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.220 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.30.219 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-20, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 10 prefixes · 24.32K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 11 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS327693- Registry name
- ORG-EPL3-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Echotel Pty Ltd
- Registered
- 2013-08-20
- Last changed
- 2025-07-09
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 6 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS327693
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 17 naming AS327693
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-21. 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