Autonomous system
AS6058 NORTHWESTEL-INC
Residential ARIN
Summary
Northwestel Inc.
isp legacy
AS6058 (NORTHWESTEL-INC) is the network of Northwestel, the incumbent telecommunications carrier for northern Canada — Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and northern British Columbia.
What it's used for
- Residential and business connectivity across Canada's three territories: home internet (fibre, cable and DSL), phone, and the transport links that carry traffic between remote northern communities and the rest of Canada.
- Addresses here are overwhelmingly subscriber addresses, so an IP in this range usually means a household or small business somewhere in the Canadian North.
Notable
- Northwestel serves an enormous service area with a very small population, much of it reachable only by satellite, microwave or long-haul fibre built along highway corridors. Its ~31,000 IPv4 addresses spread across four dozen prefixes reflect a network that is geographically vast but numerically small.
- It is a subsidiary of Bell Canada (BCE). In June 2024 Bell agreed to sell Northwestel for about C$1 billion to Sixty North Unity, a consortium of Indigenous organisations from the three territories, which would have made it the largest fully Indigenous-owned telecom in the world. The deal has not closed — financing was still unresolved as of 2026 — so Northwestel remains under Bell ownership.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS22573 | Northwestel Inc. | 2,578 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 32 prefixes · 30.98K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 32 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6058- Registry name
- NORTHWESTEL-INC
- Registrant
- Northwestel Inc.
- Abuse contact
- jlafreniere@nwtel.ca
- Registered
- 1995-10-26
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 44 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6058
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 30% registered · 13 of 44 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 26 naming AS6058
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: 442 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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