Autonomous system
AS37287 ZAIN-ZAMBIA
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Zain Zambia
mobile residential telecom zambia
The AS handle ZAIN-ZAMBIA is held by Zain Zambia PLC.
What it's used for
- The space carries mobile and residential access traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS records pointing to
r.airtel.co.zm. - With 918272 IPv4 addresses announced across 18 prefixes and only 4 observed neighbours, the high address-to-neighbour ratio indicates an access or eyeball network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- Registrants for the largest prefixes (102.144.0.0/13, 197.212.0.0/15, 41.77.0.0/22) are listed as Zain Zambia PLC with netname ORG-ZZP1-AFRINIC, while other large blocks show unknown registrants.
- The operator was formerly known as Celtel Zambia, which rebranded to Zain Zambia following the acquisition of Celtel International by Zain Group, and is now a subsidiary of Airtel Africa plc.
- The address inventory is dominated by large /13 and /15 blocks, with the 45.215.0.0/16 range finely subdivided into multiple smaller prefixes.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lusaka Internet Exchange Point | Lusaka, Zambia | 196.60.94.22 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 3 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS327708 | Airtel Rwanda Ltd | 3,503 |
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 18 prefixes · 919K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZM | Zambia | 18 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2010-12-17
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 59 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS37287
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 59 of 59 announcements
- Route objects
- 47 naming AS37287
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: 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