Autonomous system
AS6774 ASN-BICS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
BICS (Belgacom International Carrier Services)
transit backbone legacy
ASN-BICS is the network of Belgacom International Carrier Services SA (BICS), the Brussels-based international wholesale carrier of the Proximus group. Since late 2024 BICS has been folded, alongside Telesign and Route Mobile, into the Proximus Global brand.
What it's used for
- International wholesale carrier infrastructure: voice interconnect, A2P messaging, mobile roaming (IPX/GRX), IoT connectivity and fraud-prevention platforms sold to mobile operators and service providers rather than to end users.
- The announced space is BICS' own platform and interconnect estate, not subscriber pools. Reverse DNS on the core blocks looks like
network-213-137-128-0-26.bics.com— infrastructure naming, no eyeball patterns.
Notable
- BICS is a carrier's carrier: its customers are other telcos. It is one of the largest international voice and roaming hubs in the world.
- Distinct from Proximus' Belgian domestic network — 6774 is the international wholesale arm, not the retail broadband/mobile business.
- Proximus took full ownership of BICS in 2021, buying out the MTN and Swisscom stakes.
Interesting
- The RIPE object still carries the historical Belgacom name even though the parent group rebranded to Proximus, a common fossil in long-lived registry records.
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 33 exchanges in 15 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.192.12 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.128 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.208.87 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.117.210 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.87 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.236.57 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.229.66 |
| KleyReX Internet Exchange | Frankfurt, Germany | 193.189.82.23 |
Transit providers
47 upstream, 36 downstream and 145 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 13 prefixes · 20.22K addresses IPv6 17 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BE | Belgium | 30 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6774- Registry name
- ASN-BICS
- Registrant
- MNT-BICS
- Abuse contact
- abuse@bics.com
- Registered
- 2002-09-13
- Last changed
- 2025-12-26
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 72% valid · 18 valid, 7 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 18 authorising AS6774
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 25 of 25 announcements
- Route objects
- 41 naming AS6774
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: 436 networks and 1,771 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
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