Autonomous system
AS36963 OBO
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Orange Botswana
mobile telecom africa
OBO is the autonomous system for Orange Botswana (PTY) Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries mobile telecommunications traffic, evidenced by the registrant netname
ORG-OBL1-AFRINICand the operator's status as a leading mobile network provider in Botswana. - The AS announces 14,336 IPv4 addresses across 25 prefixes, with 18 observed neighbours; this ratio of address space to peering partners is consistent with an access network serving end-users.
Notable
- All sampled prefixes list
Orange Botswana (PTY) Ltdas the registrant, which agrees with the AS holder. - The operator was formerly known as Vista Cellular (PTY) Ltd and rebranded to Orange Botswana in March 2003 to align with its parent company, Orange S.A.
- The inventory consists of 25 IPv4 prefixes with no IPv6 prefixes announced, spanning blocks in the 41.74.0.0/16, 41.77.0.0/16, 41.138.0.0/16, 41.190.0.0/16, 41.223.0.0/16, and 105.235.0.0/16 ranges.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.252 |
Transit providers
4 upstream, 0 downstream and 4 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 25 prefixes · 14.34K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BW | Botswana | 25 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2007-07-17
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 36 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS36963
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 67% registered · 24 of 36 announcements
- Route objects
- 27 naming AS36963
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: 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