Autonomous system
AS37453 VODACOM-CONGO
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Vodacom Congo
mobile isp africa telecom
The AS handle VODACOM-CONGO is held by Vodacom Congo.
What it's used for
- The space carries mobile and fixed-line services for a leading telecommunications company in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, providing voice, data, and messaging solutions.
- The AS announces 9216 IPv4 addresses across 11 prefixes with only 3 observed neighbours, a ratio that indicates an access or eyeball network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- The only available RDAP registrant for the largest prefix 169.159.208.0/21 is Vodacom Congo, which matches the AS holder.
- The operator was originally established as Congolese Wireless Network (CWN) in 1999 before Vodacom South Africa acquired a 51 percent stake and rebranded the company as Vodacom Congo.
- The address inventory consists of 11 IPv4 prefixes with no IPv6 prefixes in the inventory.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Kinshasa Internet Exchange | Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo | 196.223.28.41 |
| Lubumbashi Internet Exchange | Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo | 196.60.64.40 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 11 prefixes · 9.22K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CD | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 11 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2012-06-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 86% valid · 32 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 30 authorising AS37453
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 37 of 37 announcements
- Route objects
- 56 naming AS37453
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 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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