Autonomous system
AS9304 HUTCHISON-AS-AP HGC Global Communications Limited
Hosting APNIC
Summary
HGC Global Communications (Hutchison)
isp residential business transit legacy
AS9304 (HUTCHISON-AS-AP) is held by HGC Global Communications Limited, the Hong Kong fixed-line carrier that grew out of Hutchison Global Communications. It is the operator's main routing identity and one of the largest networks in the AS9000–9500 range: RIS sees 1,178 IPv4 prefixes carrying 1,777,408 addresses, 49 IPv6 prefixes, and 691 observed BGP neighbours.
What it's used for
The evidence shows a network that is doing two jobs at once. The address side is an eyeball network: HGC originates several /14s and /15s (218.188.0.0/14, 221.124.0.0/14, 118.140.0.0/14, 223.16.0.0/14, 113.252.0.0/14) — densely covered consumer-scale space, and the sampled reverse DNS confirms it, with PTRs under on-nets.com following a mechanical 5-0-16-223-on-nets.com pattern typical of bulk-assigned broadband and fixed-line customer addresses.
The neighbour count is what separates this from a purely residential ISP. Nearly seven hundred observed peers is a carrier's peering table, not an access network's, and the presence of scattered non-Hong-Kong prefixes among the announcements (including RIPE-region 2a12:ba00::/29 and ARIN-region 2602: IPv6 blocks) points at international transit and enterprise/wholesale customers riding the same ASN. HGC therefore sits in both roles: a Hong Kong retail and business access provider, and a regional carrier selling connectivity onward.
Notable
- Both consumer access and carrier peering share one ASN here, which is why the address count and neighbour count are both high.
- Nearly two million IPv4 addresses makes this one of the largest legacy Hong Kong allocations still in active use.
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 26 exchanges in 13 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.194.166 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.100 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.210.31 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.236.221 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.228.59 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.237.37 |
| BroadBand Internet eXchange Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 101.203.89.188 |
| Coresite - Any2 West | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.210.114 |
Transit providers
67 upstream, 334 downstream and 500 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS6453 | TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC | 21,286 |
| AS15412 | Flag Telecom UK Limited | 19,084 |
| AS2914 | NTT America, Inc. | 10,003 |
| AS174 | Cogent Communications, LLC | 9,566 |
| AS6939 | Hurricane Electric LLC | 4,284 |
| AS34549 | meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG | 2,725 |
| AS7473 | Singapore Telecommunications Ltd | 2,295 |
| AS4635 | Hong Kong Internet Exchange--Route Server 1 | 2,069 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1,288 prefixes · 1.89M addresses IPv6 94 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HK | Hong Kong | 1,382 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9304- Registry name
- HUTCHISON-AS-AP
- Registrant
- HGC Global Communications Limited
- Abuse contact
- abuse@hgcbroadband.com
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-06-22
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 95% valid · 1,780 valid, 75 with no ROA 18 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 1,458 authorising AS9304
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 63% registered · 1,186 of 1,873 announcements 21 other origin
- Route objects
- 6,363 naming AS9304
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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 1,772 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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