AS6058 — NORTHWESTEL-INC

Network type: residential

AS6058 announces 32 IPv4 prefixes covering 30,976 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

AS6058 (NORTHWESTEL-INC) is the network of Northwestel, the incumbent telecommunications carrier for northern Canada — Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and northern British Columbia.

What it's used for

• Residential and business connectivity across Canada's three territories: home internet (fibre, cable and DSL), phone, and the transport links that carry traffic between remote northern communities and the rest of Canada.
• Addresses here are overwhelmingly subscriber addresses, so an IP in this range usually means a household or small business somewhere in the Canadian North.

Notable

• Northwestel serves an enormous service area with a very small population, much of it reachable only by satellite, microwave or long-haul fibre built along highway corridors. Its ~31,000 IPv4 addresses spread across four dozen prefixes reflect a network that is geographically vast but numerically small.
• It is a subsidiary of Bell Canada (BCE). In June 2024 Bell agreed to sell Northwestel for about C$1 billion to Sixty North Unity, a consortium of Indigenous organisations from the three territories, which would have made it the largest fully Indigenous-owned telecom in the world. The deal has not closed — financing was still unresolved as of 2026 — so Northwestel remains under Bell ownership.

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

Announced prefixes

• 50.117.128.0/19
• 50.117.192.0/20
• 50.117.224.0/23
• 50.117.227.0/24
• 50.117.228.0/22
• 50.117.232.0/21
• 50.117.240.0/20
• 198.235.201.0/24
• 199.85.228.0/24
• 205.234.46.0/23
• 205.234.48.0/21
• 205.234.58.0/23
• 205.234.62.0/23
• 207.189.249.0/24
• 216.108.0.0/24
• 216.108.9.0/24
• 216.108.10.0/24
• 216.108.20.0/24
• 216.108.22.0/24
• 216.108.25.0/24
• 216.108.26.0/24
• 216.108.161.0/24
• 216.108.164.0/22
• 216.108.172.0/22
• 216.108.188.0/23
• 216.108.191.0/24
• 216.126.98.0/24
• 216.126.101.0/24
• 216.126.102.0/24
• 216.126.109.0/24
• 216.126.115.0/24
• 216.126.123.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS22573 Northwestel Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS22573 Northwestel Inc.