Autonomous system
AS37168 CELL-C
Mobile AFRINIC NSP
Summary
Cell C
isp mobile eyeball
Cell C (CELL-C) — one of South Africa's mobile operators, the third major entrant after Vodacom and MTN.
What it's used for
- Mobile data and internet for South African subscribers.
Notable
- A South African "eyeball" network: addresses here are typically mobile devices behind carrier-grade NAT.
- The smallest of the big three by network scale; it has increasingly relied on roaming/network-sharing arrangements with larger operators.
Interesting
- Cell C went through a major financial restructuring in recent years and shifted much of its radio-access footprint onto host networks rather than running its own towers everywhere.
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 6 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.144 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.186 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.59 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.144 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.59 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.30.59 |
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 16 prefixes · 1.70M addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 16 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37168- Registry name
- ORG-CC2-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Cell C (Pty) Ltd
- Registered
- 2010-01-29
- Last changed
- 2024-02-06
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Cell C
- Also known as
- Cell C
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-CELLC- Present at
- 6 exchanges
- Website
- https://www.cellc.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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 37 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS37168
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 37 of 37 announcements
- Route objects
- 41 naming AS37168
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: 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