Autonomous system
AS53949 BCT-AS1 - Benton Cooperative Telephone Company
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Benton Communications
isp rural cooperative residential
BCT-AS1 is operated by Benton Communications, a rural telecommunications cooperative serving Benton County, Iowa.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential and business subscriber traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries pointing to
bctelco.netand netnames such asBENTONISPandBCT-IPV4-1. - The AS announces 10,496 IPv4 addresses across 5 prefixes while maintaining only 1 observed routing neighbour, a ratio characteristic of an access network providing last-mile connectivity rather than transit.
- Traffic consists of broadband internet, telephone, and cable TV services for local homes and businesses in the rural Iowa region.
Notable
- All registrants for the announced prefixes are listed as Benton Cooperative Telephone Company, consistent with the AS holder.
- The address inventory is composed of five distinct IPv4 blocks, including two /20s, two /22s, and one /24, with no IPv6 prefixes currently in inventory.
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, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS27204 | The Albany Mutual Telephone Association | 330 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-01, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 10.50K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS53949- Registry name
- BCT-AS1
- Registrant
- Benton Cooperative Telephone Company
- Abuse contact
- psampson@7sigma.net
- Registered
- 2011-08-12
- Last changed
- 2013-05-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Benton Cooperative Telephone Company
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
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 · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS53949
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS53949
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: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-02. 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