Autonomous system
AS8966 ETISALAT-AS P.O. Box 1150, Dubai, U
Mobile RIPE
Summary
Etisalat (e&)
isp mobile eyeball backbone
Etisalat (EMIRATES-INTERNET, now branded e&) — the UAE's incumbent telecom operator, providing mobile, fixed broadband, and international connectivity.
What it's used for
- Mobile data and fixed broadband for consumers and business across the UAE, plus wholesale and international transit.
Notable
- A large national "eyeball" network; addresses here are typically UAE home and mobile subscribers, often behind carrier-grade NAT.
- The Etisalat Group (e&) is one of the Middle East's biggest operators, with a major regional and international footprint.
Interesting
- The UAE market is dominated by two operators, Etisalat/e& and du, and Etisalat is majority state-linked through Emirates Investment Authority.
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 19 exchanges in 9 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.192.228 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.159 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.209.89 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.236.178 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.228.17 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.237.12 |
| Coresite - Any2 West | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.210.228 |
| Any2 California | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.210.228 |
Transit providers
49 upstream, 253 downstream and 489 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 31 prefixes · 18.43K addresses IPv6 6 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AE | United Arab Emirates | 37 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8966- Registry name
- Etisalat-AS
- Registrant
- ETISALAT-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@emirates.net.ae
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2026-05-12
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 96% valid · 54 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 747 authorising AS8966
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 56 of 56 announcements
- Route objects
- 711 naming AS8966
Reputation
Classification and threat
Mobile Cellular carrier. Addresses are shared by many handsets via CGNAT.
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