AS12079 — CELLCO-PART

AS12079 announces 7 IPv4 prefixes covering 165,120 addresses and 3 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Cellco Partnership is the legal entity that does business as Verizon Wireless, and this AS carries its corporate and IT space rather than its subscriber handsets.

What it's used for

• Internal enterprise networking for the wireless business. The bulk of the space sits under the netnames VZW-IT and VZW-IT-2, which is corporate IT addressing, not the consumer pool.

Notable

• Only eight IPv4 prefixes for 165,000 addresses, against three observed BGP neighbours. Verizon's consumer mobile traffic lives in far larger autonomous systems; this one has the compact shape of a company network buying transit from its own parent.
• The IPv6 side is proportionally much richer, with seven prefixes out of 2620::/23 — the ARIN direct-assignment range that organisations request for their own use.

Interesting

• One block still carries the netname GTENW-IGSNET. GTE merged with Bell Atlantic in 2000 to create Verizon, so a quarter-century later the registry is still describing part of this network by the name of a company that no longer exists.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 137.188.0.0/16
• 153.114.0.0/16
• 162.115.0.0/18
• 162.115.128.0/18
• 192.76.66.0/23
• 192.76.68.0/24
• 192.76.84.0/23
• 2620:0:1605::/48
• 2620:0:167a::/48
• 2620:101:b000::/41

Upstream networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS701 Verizon Business

Downstream networks

• AS32091 Tracfone Wireless

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS32091 Tracfone Wireless
• AS701 Verizon Business