AS9908 HKCABLE2-HK-AP HK Cable TV Ltd

AS9908 (HKCABLE2-HK-AP) is held by Hong Kong Cable Television Limited, the pay-TV and broadband operator that trades as i-CABLE. The company is PeeringDB-listed as a cable/multi-media services network and is now owned by Forever Top (Asia) Limited, which runs it as part of the i-CABLE Communications business. Its headquarters and network core are at Cable TV Tower in Tsuen Wan.

What it's used for

This is the consumer-facing side of an incumbent Hong Kong cable operator. RIS sees 216 IPv4 prefixes carrying 427,520 addresses and 28 observed BGP neighbours, with no IPv6 announced from this ASN. Read those two numbers together and the role is unambiguous. Roughly 427,000 addresses is a serious eyeball pool, enough for a city-wide residential subscriber base, but a network with only 28 neighbours is plainly not selling transit to anyone. A wholesale carrier holding that much space would peer with hundreds of ASes; i-CABLE peers with the handful of exchanges and upstreams it needs to get its own subscribers to the rest of the internet, and it does that from the Equinix HK facilities.

The 2 in the handle is the giveaway that this is a second-generation ASN for the operator. i-CABLE also appears in the routing table as [AS9513](https://asn.ipinfo.app/AS9513); the two together are the group's addressing, not a single network.

Notable

• No IPv6 is originated here, which is conspicuous for an access network of this size and puts i-CABLE behind Hong Kong's other large residential providers on v6.
• The operator's history is television first, internet second, which is why the ASN sits under a broadcaster's corporate name rather than an ISP brand.