Autonomous system
AS36969 MTL-AS
Unclassified AFRINIC NSP
Summary
Malawi Telecommunications Limited
telecom residential business fixed
MTL-AS is operated by Malawi Telecommunications Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space carries fixed-line and business connectivity, evidenced by the netname
ORG-MTL5-AFRINICand the operator's provision of "BusinessCONNECT" VPN solutions. - With 12,800 IPv4 addresses announced across 20 prefixes and only 3 observed neighbours, the ratio indicates an access or eyeball network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- Registrants for the largest prefixes, such as 41.87.0.0/21 and 41.221.96.0/22, align with the announcer, Malawi Telecommunications Limited.
- The address inventory is concentrated in the 41.87.0.0/16 and 41.221.96.0/22 ranges, with smaller allocations in 196.45.188.0/24 and 196.45.190.0/24.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Malawi Internet Exchange | Blantyre, Malawi | 196.223.27.36 |
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 20 prefixes · 12.80K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| MW | Malawi | 21 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2007-08-10
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Malawi Telecommunications
- Also known as
- MTL
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Africa
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS36969- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Website
- http://www.mtl.mw/
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
- 61% valid · 20 valid, 5 with no ROA 8 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 48 authorising AS36969
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 33 of 33 announcements
- Route objects
- 66 naming AS36969
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: 432 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