Autonomous system
AS9498 BBIL-AP BHARTI Airtel Ltd.
Mobile APNIC
Summary
Bharti Airtel
isp mobile eyeball backbone
Bharti Airtel (BBIL-AP) — one of India's largest mobile and broadband operators, and a major carrier across South Asia and Africa.
What it's used for
- Mobile data for a very large Indian subscriber base, plus fixed broadband and enterprise/transit services.
Notable
- A huge "eyeball" network; addresses here are typically Indian mobile devices or home broadband, often behind carrier-grade NAT, so geo is coarse.
- Competes with Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea in the intensely price-competitive Indian market.
Interesting
- Airtel is one of the world's largest operators by subscribers, with a footprint spanning India, South Asia, and Africa (via Airtel Africa).
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 24 exchanges in 16 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| IX.br (PTT.br) São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil | 187.16.211.1 |
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.194.250 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.226.204 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.211.191 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.119.121 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.10.5 |
| MSK-IX Moscow | Moscow, Russia | 195.208.210.26 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.228.40 |
Transit providers
61 upstream, 927 downstream and 1,003 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2,238 prefixes · 2.10M addresses IPv6 260 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IN | India | 2,498 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9498- Registry name
- BBIL-AP
- Registrant
- Bharti Airtel Limited
- Abuse contact
- ip.misuse@airtel.com
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-07-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 95% valid · 4,976 valid, 267 with no ROA 3 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 814 authorising AS9498
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 97% registered · 5,076 of 5,246 announcements 63 other origin
- Route objects
- 17,667 naming AS9498
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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