Autonomous system
AS42961 GPRS-AS Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C.P.
Residential RIPE Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Zain (Kuwait)
isp residential eyeball fiber fixed-wireless
Zain Kuwait (Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C.P., "ZAIN KW") is a leading consumer telecom in Kuwait. This ASN carries its subscribers.
What it's used for
- Consumer internet for Kuwaiti households: fibre home broadband and 5G/4G fixed-wireless home internet, alongside mobile data.
Notable
- An "eyeball" network: addresses here are consumer end users, not servers, commonly behind carrier-grade NAT.
- Zain is a mobile-led operator that is also a leading fixed-broadband provider in Kuwait; the parent group operates across the Middle East and Africa.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Kuwait Internet Exchange | Kuwait City, Kuwait | 194.54.136.5 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 13 downstream and 17 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS8529 | Zain Omantel International FZ-LLC | 12,115 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-03, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 31 prefixes · 633K addresses IPv6 18 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KW | Kuwait | 49 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS42961- Registry name
- GPRS-AS
- Registrant
- MTC-GPRS-KW
- Abuse contact
- abuse@kw.zain.com
- Registered
- 2007-05-15
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Zain KW
- Also known as
- ZAIN , ZAIN KW , ZAIN Kuwait , Mobile Telecommunication Company , MTC , MTC KW , MTC Kuwait
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Middle East
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Website
- http://kw.zain.com
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 · 208 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 210 authorising AS42961
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 208 of 208 announcements
- Route objects
- 651 naming AS42961
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: 451 networks and 1,853 prefixes, as published 2026-11-04. 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