Autonomous system
AS36994 Vodacom-VB
Mobile ARIN NSP
Summary
Vodacom
isp mobile eyeball backbone
Vodacom — one of South Africa's largest mobile operators and a major pan-African carrier, part of the Vodafone group.
What it's used for
- Mobile data and internet for a large South African subscriber base, plus business connectivity and regional transit across several African markets.
Notable
- A major "eyeball" network: addresses here are typically mobile devices behind carrier-grade NAT.
- Competes with MTN, Cell C, and Telkom in South Africa; also operates in the DRC, Tanzania, Mozambique, Lesotho, and (via a stake) Safaricom in Kenya.
Interesting
- Vodacom pioneered the M-Pesa mobile-money platform in several of its markets, extending the operator well beyond voice and data.
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 11 exchanges in 6 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.195.246 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.226.240 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.214.255 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.195 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.12 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.73 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.12 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.73 |
Transit providers
38 upstream, 32 downstream and 107 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 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 134 prefixes · 830K addresses IPv6 6 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 140 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS36994- Registry name
- ORG-VA67-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Vodacom
- Registered
- 2007-12-13
- Last changed
- 2021-04-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Vodacom
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
RADB::AS-VB-TRANSIT- Present at
- 13 exchanges
- Facilities
- 7 facilities
- Website
- http://www.vodacom.co.za
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
- 70% valid · 104 valid, 44 with no ROA 1 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 13 authorising AS36994
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 97% registered · 144 of 149 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 134 naming AS36994
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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