AS8661 — PTK PTK IPMPLS Network

AS8661 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 41,984 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

PTK is Telekomi i Kosovës SH.A. (Kosovo Telecom), the country's incumbent operator — the former Post and Telecommunications of Kosovo. The handle's "IP/MPLS Network" suffix names the carrier core; the AS is the company's main routing identity.

What it's used for

• The incumbent's retail and carrier network in Kosovo: fixed broadband and telephony, plus the Vala mobile brand. About 42,000 IPv4 addresses, dominated by 178.175.0.0/17 with the older 213.163.96.0/19 alongside.

Notable

• Only three observed BGP neighbours. For a national incumbent that is strikingly few — Kosovo Telecom buys transit from a small number of upstreams and originates its own space rather than acting as a regional carrier.
• No PTRs were returned on the addresses sampled inside its prefixes. That is not proof the zones are undelegated, but it does mean the fixed-versus-mobile split of this space cannot be read from reverse DNS; the classification rests on the operator's role as Kosovo's retail incumbent.

Interesting

• Some geolocation databases place this AS in Albania rather than Kosovo. The registered holder is in Pristina, and measurement traces inside 178.175.0.0/17 land there.

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

Announced prefixes

• 178.175.0.0/17
• 185.47.188.0/22
• 213.163.96.0/19
• 2a02:e540::/29

Upstream networks

• AS6821 Makedonski Telekom AD-Skopje
• AS21246 IPKO Telecommunications LLC

Downstream networks

• AS211080 Ministry of Economy of Republic of Kosovo

Adjacent networks

• AS6821 Makedonski Telekom AD-Skopje
• AS21246 IPKO Telecommunications LLC
• AS211080 Ministry of Economy of Republic of Kosovo

Internet exchanges

• KOSIX Internet Exchange Point — Prishtinë, Kosovo