Autonomous system
AS37266 AMOBIA-ASN
Residential ARIN
Summary
Amobia Communications
isp wireless residential south-africa
The AS handle AMOBIA-ASN is held by Amobia Communications.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential and wireless access traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
196-45-23-255-ub.amobia.co.zaand196-32-235-255-cb.amobia.co.za. - The network announces 6144 IPv4 addresses across 2 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, with 20 observed neighbours, indicating a regional access provider rather than a transit carrier.
Notable
- Registrants for both announced IPv4 prefixes are listed as Amobia Communications, matching the AS holder.
- Amobia Communications was co-founded in 2003 and initially focused on wireless infrastructure, providing network coverage throughout South Africa.
- The inventory consists of two distinct IPv4 blocks, 196.45.16.0/20 and 196.32.232.0/21, both registered under the netname ORG-AC2-AFRINIC.
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 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.66 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.34 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.24 |
| Nelson Mandela Bay Internet Exchange Point | Gqeberha, South Africa | 196.60.120.24 |
Transit providers
4 upstream, 0 downstream and 7 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 2 prefixes · 6.14K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS37266- Registry name
- ORG-AC2-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Amobia Communications
- Registered
- 2010-10-08
- Last changed
- 2020-12-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 90% valid · 26 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 32 authorising AS37266
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 29 of 29 announcements
- Route objects
- 32 naming AS37266
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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