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Autonomous system

AS37713 Access-Communications-Ltd

Unclassified AFRINIC

IPv4 addresses 512 1 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly MW
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 2 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Access Communications Ltd

Malawi · AI-generated

telecom residential mobile malawi

Access-Communications-Ltd is operated by Access Communications Ltd.

What it's used for

  • The address space carries subscriber traffic, evidenced by the reverse DNS record pub218-255.access.mw and the netname ORG-ACL4-AFRINIC.
  • The AS announces 512 IPv4 addresses across 1 prefix (41.78.218.0/23) with 2 observed neighbours, a ratio indicative of an access network rather than a transit provider.
  • As the Second National Operator (SNO) in Malawi, the traffic consists of residential and mobile subscriber data, voice, and internet access services.

Notable

  • The registrant Access Communications Ltd matches the AS holder, confirming direct ownership of the address space.
  • Access Communications Ltd was licensed in 2007 as the Second National Operator in Malawi and launched services in January 2010.
  • The inventory consists of a single contiguous /23 block, representing a compact and focused address allocation for the operator's network.

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

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.

Transit providers

2 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS37440Airtel Malawi Ltd78
AS327708Airtel Rwanda Ltd43

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 1 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
MWMalawi1

Registry

Allocation record

AFRINIC · via Atlas (registry data)
Registry
AFRINIC
Registered
2015-05-13
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
ROAs
0 authorising AS37713
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
0% registered · 0 of 2 announcements
Route objects
0 naming AS37713

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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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

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