Autonomous system
AS37531 AIRTEL-NIGER
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Airtel Niger
mobile residential telecom africa
The AS handle AIRTEL-NIGER is held by Airtel Niger.
What it's used for
- The address space carries mobile subscriber traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries pointing to
r.airtel.ne(e.g.,0-21-214-197.r.airtel.ne). - The network announces 9,728 IPv4 addresses across 22 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, with only 4 observed neighbours, indicating a role as an access or eyeball network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- Registrants for the largest prefixes, such as
197.214.20.0/22and197.214.60.0/22, are listed as Airtel Niger with the netnameORG-AN2-AFRINIC, aligning with the AS holder. - Airtel Niger was established in 2011 through the acquisition of Celtel, which had previously been rebranded as Zain, and now operates under the strategic direction of its Indian parent, Bharti Airtel.
- The inventory consists of finely subdivided /22, /23, and /24 blocks within the 197.214.0.0/16 range, typical of a mobile operator managing subscriber pools.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
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 22 prefixes · 9.98K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NE | Niger | 23 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2012-11-29
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 33 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS37531
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 33 of 33 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS37531
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