Autonomous system
AS37014 Mascom-Wireless-Botswana
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Mascom Wireless
mobile telecom botswana
Mascom-Wireless-Botswana is operated by Mascom Wireless Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries mobile telecommunications traffic, consistent with the holder's identity as a major mobile network operator in Botswana.
- The AS announces 3072 IPv4 addresses across 4 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, with 5 observed neighbours; this ratio of address space to peering partners indicates an access/eyeball network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- All four largest IPv4 prefixes share the netname
ORG-MWL1-AFRINICand list Mascom Wireless Ltd as the registrant, fully aligning with the AS holder. - Mascom Wireless is the mobile market leader in Botswana, holding approximately 40% market share with around 1.85 million subscribers as of 2024.
- The inventory consists of four /22 and /23 blocks in the 41.223.0.0/16, 156.38.0.0/16, and 102.215.0.0/16 ranges, plus a single /32 IPv6 prefix.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.9.180 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 3.07K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BW | Botswana | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37014- Registry name
- ORG-MWL1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Mascom Wireless Ltd
- Registered
- 2008-04-01
- Last changed
- 2025-01-24
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 13 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 27 authorising AS37014
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 13 of 13 announcements
- Route objects
- 16 naming AS37014
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: 442 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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