Autonomous system
AS9908 HKCABLE2-HK-AP HK Cable TV Ltd
Residential APNIC
Summary
Hong Kong Cable Television (i-CABLE)
isp residential legacy
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; 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong Internet Exchange | Hong Kong, China | 123.255.90.89 |
| BroadBand Internet eXchange Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | 103.203.158.125 |
Transit providers
12 upstream, 2 downstream and 14 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 2026-10-17, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 14 prefixes · 362K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HK | Hong Kong | 14 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9908- Registry name
- HKCABLE2-HK-AP
- Registrant
- Hong Kong Cable Television Limited
- Abuse contact
- noc@hkcable.com.hk
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2022-05-25
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 200 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 42 authorising AS9908
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 200 of 200 announcements
- Route objects
- 659 naming AS9908
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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