Autonomous system
AS37333 COMTEL
Residential AFRINIC Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Comtel Communications
isp residential business south-africa
The AS handle COMTEL is held by Comtel Communications.
What it's used for
- The address space is registered under the netname
ORG-CC4-AFRINICfor Comtel Communications, indicating a corporate ISP estate. - The AS announces 9,472 IPv4 addresses across 8 prefixes and 6 IPv6 prefixes, with 19 observed neighbours. This ratio of address space to peering partners suggests a regional access or eyeball network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- Registrants for the majority of prefixes (41.76.32.0/21, 41.77.200.0/21, 41.138.64.0/21, 154.73.240.0/22, 102.67.52.0/23, 154.73.246.0/23) align with the announcer, Comtel Communications.
- The inventory consists of a mix of /21, /22, /23, and /24 blocks, with the largest being 41.76.32.0/21, 41.77.200.0/21, and 41.138.64.0/21.
- Two prefixes (102.67.48.0/22 and 154.73.244.0/24) show unknown registrants in the RDAP data, which may indicate leased space or data gaps.
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 5 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.9.63 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.63 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.65 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.67 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.65 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 8 prefixes · 9.47K addresses IPv6 6 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 14 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37333- Registry name
- ORG-CC4-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Comtel Communications
- Registered
- 2011-05-23
- Last changed
- 2025-08-10
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Comtel Communications
- Also known as
- Comtel
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-COMTEL- Present at
- 5 exchanges
- Website
- http://www.comtel.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
- 100% valid · 30 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS37333
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 30 of 30 announcements
- Route objects
- 35 naming AS37333
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: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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