Autonomous system
AS56040 CMNET-GUANGDONG-AP China Mobile communications corporation
Mobile DROP-listed space APNIC
Summary
China Mobile (Guangdong)
isp mobile eyeball backbone
China Mobile Group Guangdong (CMNET-GuangDong-AP) is the Guangdong-province network of China Mobile, the world's largest mobile operator by subscribers.
What it's used for
- Mobile data and broadband for China Mobile customers in Guangdong province, part of the nationwide CMNET backbone.
Notable
- A very large "eyeball" network — addresses here are typically consumer mobile devices behind carrier-grade NAT, so geolocation is coarse.
- One of China Mobile's provincial ASNs; the operator splits its enormous network across many regional autonomous systems.
Interesting
- Guangdong is one of China's most populous and economically active provinces, making this one of the busier regional slices of China Mobile's network.
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, 24 downstream and 31 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS9808 | China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. | 36,836 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-12, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 907 prefixes · 829K addresses IPv6 962 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CN | China | 1,869 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS56040- Registry name
- CMNET-GuangDong-AP
- Registrant
- China Mobile Communications Corporation
- Abuse contact
- abuse@chinamobile.com
- Registered
- 2026-05-22
- Last changed
- 2026-08-14
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 96% valid · 695 valid, 12 with no ROA 15 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 767 authorising AS56040
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 97% registered · 699 of 722 announcements
- Route objects
- 913 naming AS56040
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 120.233.56.0/21 | 120.233.59.0/24 | SBL656001 |
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 436 networks and 1,769 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
1 IC3 indicators addresses in this network appear in FBI IC3 cybersecurity advisories.
| Prefix | Advisory | Published |
|---|---|---|
183.240.139.216 | Chinese Government-linked Cyber Threat Actors Combine Automated and Hands-on Hacking Tools to Steal Sensitive Data | 2026-10-08 |
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere