Autonomous system
AS8163 Metrotel SA ESP
Unclassified LACNIC
Summary
Metrotel S.A. E.S.P.
isp broadband legacy
Metrotel S.A. E.S.P. is a Colombian fixed-line fibre operator, originally out of Barranquilla on the Caribbean coast and now also present in Bogotá. It announces roughly 67,000 IPv4 addresses.
What it's used for
- Fibre broadband to homes, offices and commercial buildings in its Colombian service area, plus corporate connectivity.
- The space is entirely LACNIC-registered Colombian ranges (
190.182.0.0/18,190.1.128.0upward,200.89.x,201.220.x), announced as a couple of large aggregates plus many deaggregated/24s.
Notable
- An IP here is normally a subscriber, home or business, on Metrotel's own fibre — not a server. It is an access network, not a hosting one.
- Almost none of the space carries reverse DNS, which is common for Latin American access providers and means rDNS gives no help identifying a given host.
E.S.P.in the name is the Colombian legal designation Empresa de Servicios Públicos (public-utility company); it is not part of a brand.
Interesting
- The AS has a single upstream, Colombia Telecomunicaciones, so despite its size it is a leaf network rather than a regional transit provider.
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 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS3816 | COLOMBIA TELECOMUNICACIONES S.A. ESP BIC | 5,163 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-24, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 90 prefixes · 67.58K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CO | Colombia | 91 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- LACNIC
- Handle
AS8163- Registry name
- 8163
- Registrant
- Metrotel SA ESP
- Abuse contact
- admininternet.telecom@tigo.com.co
- Registered
- 1997-05-05
- Last changed
- 2026-08-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Metrotel SA ESP
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
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 · 88 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS8163
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 88 of 88 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS8163
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: 442 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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