AS53848 — MRTC-WLBTKY - Mountain Telephone

AS53848 announces 8 IPv4 prefixes covering 22,528 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

MRTC-WLBTKY is operated by Mountain Telephone, a rural telecommunications provider headquartered in West Liberty, Kentucky.

What it's used for

• The address space carries residential and business connectivity, evidenced by registrant netnames MRTCC associated with Mountain Rural Telephone Cooperative and Mountain Telephone.
• The AS announces 22,528 IPv4 addresses across 8 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, while maintaining only 7 observed neighbours; this high address-to-neighbour ratio indicates an access/eyeball network rather than a transit provider.
• Traffic from this AS consists of subscriber eyeballs for broadband internet, VoIP, and SpreeTV services delivered to rural communities in Kentucky.

Notable

• Registrants for the announced prefixes are consistent with the announcer, listing both Mountain Telephone and Mountain Rural Telephone Cooperative under the netname MRTCC.
• The address inventory is fragmented across multiple /20, /21, and /23 blocks, reflecting the organic growth of a regional utility provider.

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

Announced prefixes

• 23.252.176.0/20
• 52.124.22.0/23
• 64.45.182.0/23
• 104.254.40.0/22
• 104.255.160.0/21
• 199.202.0.0/19
• 209.127.128.0/21
• 216.211.144.0/20
• 2607:a80::/32

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3801 Mikrotec Internet Services

Downstream networks

• AS400633 Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS400633 Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc.
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3801 Mikrotec Internet Services

Routing security

• RPKI: 9 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 9 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 16 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-3801-CUSTOMERS, AS-394111, AS-DRIX, AS-HURRICANE, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-MIKR, AS-SUDDENLINK-TRANSIT, AS-XO, AS-XO-B, AS26479:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS53848:AS-ALL.

Internet exchanges

• Digital Realty Atlanta Internet Exchange — Atlanta, United States
• Digital Realty Dallas Internet Exchange — Dallas, United States