Autonomous system
AS45609 BHARTI-MOBILITY-AS-AP Bharti Airtel Ltd. AS for GPRS Service
Mobile DROP-listed space APNIC
Summary
Bharti Airtel (India, Mobile)
isp mobile eyeball
Bharti Airtel's mobile data ASN in India (registered as Airtel's AS for GPRS/cellular service). Airtel is one of India's largest mobile operators.
What it's used for
- Mobile data for a very large Indian subscriber base (2G/3G/4G/5G), carried on this and other Airtel ASNs.
Notable
- A large "eyeball" network — addresses here are mobile handsets, typically behind carrier-grade NAT, so one public IP maps to many users and geo is coarse.
- Bharti Airtel also runs fixed broadband and enterprise networks under separate ASNs; this one is dedicated to mobile packet-data.
Interesting
- Airtel competes primarily with Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea in India's very large, price-competitive mobile market.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 1 downstream and 4 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS9498 | BHARTI Airtel Ltd. | 249,762 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 351 prefixes · 3.42M addresses IPv6 794 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IN | India | 1,145 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS45609- Registry name
- BHARTI-MOBILITY-AS-AP
- Registrant
- Bharti Airtel Limited
- Abuse contact
- ip.misuse@airtel.com
- Registered
- 2009-01-29
- Last changed
- 2020-07-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 96% valid · 5,469 valid, 127 with no ROA 110 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 71 authorising AS45609
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 89% registered · 5,102 of 5,706 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 10,136 naming AS45609
Reputation
Classification and threat
Mobile Cellular carrier. Addresses are shared by many handsets via CGNAT.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
1 DROP match Announced space overlapping the DROP prefix list.
| Announced | DROP entry | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 150.129.212.0/22 | 150.129.212.0/22 | SBL277063 |
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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