Autonomous system
AS328471 Hero-Telecoms
Mobile AFRINIC Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Rain (South Africa)
isp mobile eyeball
Rain — a South African data-only mobile network operator, best known for its 4G and 5G fixed and mobile wireless internet.
What it's used for
- Data-only mobile and fixed-wireless internet; it does not sell traditional voice/SIM plans the way legacy operators do.
Notable
- An "eyeball" network — addresses are typically customer devices and 5G routers, often behind carrier-grade NAT.
- A newer entrant competing with the established MTN and Vodacom networks; began as a wholesale 4G data operator before launching its own 5G service.
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 6 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.10.30 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.71.6 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.67 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.32 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.67 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.30.67 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 1 downstream and 14 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 132 prefixes · 161K addresses IPv6 16 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 148 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2019-04-19
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- HERO TELECOMS
- Also known as
- Herotel
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Africa
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-HEROTEL- Present at
- 6 exchanges
- Facilities
- 2 facilities
- Website
- https://www.herotel.com
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
- 42% valid · 94 valid, 132 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS328471
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 226 of 226 announcements
- Route objects
- 783 naming AS328471
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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