Autonomous system
AS852 TELUS Communications
Residential ARIN NSP
Summary
TELUS
isp eyeball backbone
TELUS (TELUS Communications) — a large Canadian telecom, the incumbent across much of western Canada (British Columbia and Alberta).
What it's used for
- Consumer and business fixed broadband (increasingly fibre) and mobile in its western-Canada heartland and beyond.
Notable
- One of Canada's big three carriers alongside Bell and Rogers; a major "eyeball" network.
Interesting
- TELUS has diversified well beyond connectivity into health (TELUS Health) and agriculture technology, unusual among incumbent telcos.
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 7 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.80.227 |
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.35.126 |
| DE-CIX New York | New York, United States | 206.82.104.58 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.67 |
| YYCIX Calgary Internet Exchange | Calgary, Canada | 206.126.225.50 |
| CANIX Internet Exchange - Montreal | Montreal, Canada | 198.179.18.85 |
| Vancouver Internet Exchange | Vancouver, Canada | 206.41.104.11 |
Transit providers
16 upstream, 401 downstream and 500 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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1,023 prefixes · 4.82M addresses IPv6 97 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 1,120 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS852- Registry name
- ASN852
- Registrant
- TELUS Communications Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@telus.com
- Registered
- 1998-04-16
- Last changed
- 2013-04-05
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- TELUS Communications
- Also known as
- TELUS Communications Inc.
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-TELUS- Present at
- 7 exchanges
- Facilities
- 9 facilities
- Website
- http://www.telus.com
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
- 36% valid · 393 valid, 396 with no ROA 298 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 498 authorising AS852
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1,087 of 1,087 announcements
- Route objects
- 1,062 naming AS852
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
1 IC3 indicators addresses in this network appear in FBI IC3 cybersecurity advisories.
| Prefix | Advisory | Published |
|---|---|---|
96.1.1.1 | Improve Router Hygiene to Protect Against Russian State-Sponsored Targeting | 2026-07-13 |
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere