Autonomous system
AS33771 Safaricom Limited - Safaricom Limited
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Safaricom (Kenya)
isp mobile eyeball
Safaricom (SAFARICOM-LIMITED) — Kenya's largest mobile operator and dominant telecom.
What it's used for
- Mobile data and broadband for the large majority of Kenyan internet users.
Notable
- The dominant Kenyan "eyeball" network.
- Operates M-Pesa, the mobile-money service that made Kenya a global pioneer in phone-based payments.
Interesting
- M-Pesa is so widely used that a large share of Kenya's economy moves over Safaricom's network, well beyond ordinary internet traffic.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | 196.223.21.15 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 5 downstream and 24 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS37100 | SEACOM Limited | 2,166 |
| AS37662 | West Indian Ocean Cable Company | 2,061 |
| AS23764 | CTGNet | 1,680 |
| AS36994 | Vodacom | 592 |
| AS3356 | Level 3 Parent, LLC | 548 |
| AS8966 | EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC | 303 |
| AS328977 | Wavex Internet Service Provider LTD | 104 |
| AS174 | Cogent Communications, LLC | 101 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-02, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 96 prefixes · 1.75M addresses IPv6 31 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KE | Kenya | 127 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS33771- Registry name
- ORG-SL70-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Safaricom Limited
- Registered
- 2005-04-11
- Last changed
- 2025-11-11
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 128 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 13 authorising AS33771
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 128 of 128 announcements
- Route objects
- 705 naming AS33771
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: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-11-03. 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