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AS42298 GCC-MPLS-PEERING GCC MPLS peering

Unclassified RIPE

IPv4 addresses 8.96K 21 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 384 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly QA
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 1 10 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Ooredoo

Qatar · AI-generated

mobile residential telecom qatar

GCC-MPLS-peering is operated by Ooredoo Q.S.C., the Qatari state-owned telecommunications provider formerly known as Qtel.

What it's used for

  • The address space carries mobile broadband and ISP infrastructure, evidenced by netnames such as MOBILE-BROADBAND-POOL and OOREDOO-ISP-INFRASTRUCTURE-1.
  • With 8,960 IPv4 addresses and 378 IPv6 prefixes announced against 11 observed neighbours, the ratio indicates an access network serving end-user traffic rather than a transit provider.
  • Traffic from this AS consists of subscriber mobile data, fixed-line broadband, and corporate connectivity for Ooredoo's customer base in Qatar.

Notable

  • Registrants align with the announcer, listing Ooredoo Q.S.C. and OOREDOO Qatar Abuse Acoount for most prefixes, while Communications Regulatory Authority holds the 178.23.16.0/21 and 185.154.168.0/23 blocks.
  • The operator was formerly known as Qatar Telecom (Qtel) and rebranded to Ooredoo in 2013.
  • The inventory includes a mix of /22, /23, and /24 IPv4 prefixes, with the largest block being 178.23.16.0/21.

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

1 upstream, 10 downstream and 16 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS8781Ooredoo Q.S.C.29,868

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

Shape and geography

IPv4 21 prefixes · 8.96K addresses IPv6 384 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
QAQatar405

Registry

Allocation record

RIPE · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS42298
Registry name
GCC-MPLS-peering
Registrant
Ooredoo Q.S.C.
Abuse contact
abuse@qatar.net.qa
Registered
2007-01-29
Last changed
2018-09-04
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
99% valid · 784 valid, 8 with no ROA
ROAs
275 authorising AS42298
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
2% registered · 17 of 792 announcements 10 other origin
Route objects
870 naming AS42298

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

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