Autonomous system
AS9129 KE-NET2000
Unclassified AFRINIC NSP
Summary
MTN South Africa
isp mobile legacy
MTN SA is the South African network of MTN Group, the Johannesburg-based operator that is the largest mobile carrier on the African continent.
What it's used for
Carrier infrastructure for MTN's South African operations. The AS announces AFRINIC space in the 41.209.0.0/16 range plus RIPE-era 195.202.x and 217.199.152.0/21 blocks. Routing-status detail and reverse DNS were not available on the sampled addresses, so the precise split between mobile-subscriber, fixed and corporate use inside this AS cannot be pinned down here.
Notable
- MTN Group operates across many African and Middle Eastern markets; this AS is specifically the South African entity, not the pan-African backbone.
- Because the reverse DNS did not resolve on the sampled addresses, the classification rests on the holder identity rather than on observed subscriber naming.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | 196.223.21.171 |
| Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Mombasa | Mombasa, Kenya | 196.60.68.25 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 28 downstream and 35 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS16637 | MTN SA | 4,039 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 41 prefixes · 27.14K addresses IPv6 17 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 58 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2007-09-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- MTN Business Kenya
- Also known as
- BAYOBAB KENYA
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-MTNKE- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 7 facilities
- Website
- https://bayobab.africa/
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 · 63 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS9129
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 63 of 63 announcements
- Route objects
- 78 naming AS9129
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: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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