Autonomous system
AS7122 MTS-ASN
Residential ARIN
Summary
Bell MTS (Manitoba Telecom Services), Bell Canada
isp legacy
MTS-ASN is the network of Manitoba Telecom Services, Manitoba's incumbent telephone company, acquired by Bell Canada in 2017 and now operating as Bell MTS. The AS is registered to Bell Canada, but the network it carries is the Manitoba access network.
What it's used for
- Consumer and business internet access across Manitoba: this is eyeball space.
- Announces a large legacy inventory, roughly half a million IPv4 addresses, including
142.160.0.0/16,142.161.0.0/16,204.112.0.0/16,205.200.0.0/16and207.161.0.0/16.
Notable
- Reverse DNS confirms the subscriber character of the space, with names under
dial.bellmts.netanddynamic.bellmts.netcarrying per-exchange codes (Thompson, Brandon and so on). Dial-up naming still lingers in some pools. - This is the provincial access network, not Bell's national backbone. Bell Canada's transit and core routing sit on separate ASNs; do not read this one as a carrier backbone just because Bell is the registrant.
Interesting
- The MTS name survives in the AS handle and throughout reverse DNS years after the acquisition. Renaming an AS handle is cosmetic and rarely worth the churn, so old carrier identities persist in routing data long after the brand disappears from storefronts.
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, 20 downstream and 22 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS577 | Bell Canada | 1,097 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 68 prefixes · 492K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 69 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7122- Registry name
- MTS-ASN
- Registrant
- Bell Canada
- Abuse contact
- abuse@bellnexxia.net
- Registered
- 1996-09-11
- Last changed
- 2020-04-21
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 84% valid · 16 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 17 authorising AS7122
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 95% registered · 18 of 19 announcements
- Route objects
- 72 naming AS7122
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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