AS37342 — MOVITEL

Network type: residential

AS37342 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 131,072 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

MOVITEL is operated by Movitel, SA, a mobile telecommunications provider in Mozambique.

What it's used for

• The address space carries residential broadband traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as dynamic-adsl.movitel.co.mz across the sampled prefixes.
• The AS announces 131072 IPv4 addresses across 41 prefixes, with 47 observed neighbours. This ratio of address volume to peering partners is consistent with an access network serving end-users rather than a transit provider.

Notable

• Registrants for the largest prefixes, including 197.219.0.0/17 and 197.219.192.0/18, are listed as Movitel, SA with the netname ORG-MS5-AFRINIC, aligning with the AS holder.
• Movitel is a partnership between the Vietnamese company Viettel and Mozambique's SPI, having won a public tender in 2010 to operate as a mobile telecommunications provider.
• The inventory consists of 41 IPv4 prefixes with no IPv6 prefixes announced, showing a purely IPv4 footprint for this AS.

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

Announced prefixes

• 197.218.0.0/15

Upstream networks

• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS37662 West Indian Ocean Cable Company
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS10099 China Unicom Global
• AS3491 PCCW Global (HK) Ltd.
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS6762 TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A.
• AS58453 China Mobile International Limited
• AS38001 NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS35280 F5 Networks SARL
• AS15830 Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V.
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH

Adjacent networks

• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS37662 West Indian Ocean Cable Company
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS10099 China Unicom Global
• AS3491 PCCW Global (HK) Ltd.
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS6762 TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A.
• AS58453 China Mobile International Limited
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS38001 NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS15830 Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V.
• AS35280 F5 Networks SARL
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH

Internet exchanges

• NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg — Johannesburg, South Africa
• Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore — Singapore, Singapore
• NAPAfrica IX Durban — Durban, South Africa
• Mozambique Internet Exchange — Maputo, Mozambique