Autonomous system
AS5416 Internet Service Provider
Unclassified RIPE Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Beyon B.S.C. (Batelco)
isp legacy
AS5416 is the network of Bahrain Telecommunications Company B.S.C. — long known as Batelco, and now trading under the group name Beyon — Bahrain's principal telecommunications operator. The RIPE object still carries the kingdom's Telegraph House address in Manama.
What it's used for
- Fixed broadband and mobile internet for consumers across Bahrain.
- Enterprise, government and wholesale connectivity, plus the group's cloud and data-centre services.
- International transit and subsea capacity into the Gulf region.
Notable
- Incumbent eyeball network: most addresses here are subscribers, so this ASN is what you see behind a large share of all traffic originating in Bahrain.
- Because Bahrain is small and Batelco is the incumbent, AS5416 is one of the clearest cases where a single ASN is a reasonable proxy for "a country's consumer internet".
Interesting
- Batelco kept its consumer brand while the listed parent rebranded to Beyon in the early 2020s, which is why registry data, stock tickers and marketing all disagree about the operator's name.
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 6 exchanges in 5 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.194.249 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.211.238 |
| France-IX Marseille | Marseille, France | 37.49.232.55 |
| DE-CIX Marseille | Marseille, France | 185.1.47.53 |
| UAE-IX | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 185.1.8.38 |
| Manama-IX | Manama, Bahrain | 77.69.248.14 |
Transit providers
33 upstream, 14 downstream and 66 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS15412 | Flag Telecom UK Limited | 18,227 |
| AS8529 | Zain Omantel International FZ-LLC | 13,331 |
| AS8781 | Ooredoo Q.S.C. | 6,231 |
| AS8966 | EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC | 6,042 |
| AS174 | Cogent Communications, LLC | 5,885 |
| AS48237 | Etihad Etisalat, a joint stock company | 3,697 |
| AS39386 | Saudi Telecom Company JSC | 3,350 |
| AS34549 | meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG | 1,556 |
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
IPv4 105 prefixes · 124K addresses IPv6 64 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BH | Bahrain | 169 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5416- Registry name
- UNSPECIFIED
- Registrant
- AS5416-MNT
- Abuse contact
- ISPnotification@btc.com.bh
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2022-02-24
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Batelco
- Also known as
- Bahrain Telecommunication Company "Batelco"
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-BATELCO-BH- Present at
- 6 exchanges
- Website
- http://batelco.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 · 1,884 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4,007 authorising AS5416
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1,884 of 1,884 announcements
- Route objects
- 4,817 naming AS5416
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