AS9873 — TELECOM-LA-AS-AP Lao Telecom Communication, LTC

AS9873 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 29,696 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

AS9873 (TELECOM-LA-AS-AP) is held by Lao Telecommunication Public Company (Lao Telecom / LTC), the incumbent telecommunications operator of the Lao PDR and a joint venture between the Lao government and Shenington Investments. This is the carrier's main internet-facing AS.

What it's used for

Lao Telecom sells fixed-line, broadband, IPTV and mobile service across the country, and AS9873 is where that traffic reaches the internet. RIS sees 110 IPv4 prefixes carrying 29,696 addresses, plus 11 IPv6 prefixes, with 45 observed BGP neighbours. The shape is characteristic of a national incumbent in a small market: the address footprint is dominated by two large legacy blocks (115.84.64.0/18 and 202.137.128.0/19) with the remainder of the table made up of long-standing /24s, and the neighbour count is well into the dozens without approaching the hundreds or thousands that a wholesale transit carrier accumulates. That mix says the AS is mostly carrying Lao Telecom's own subscribers and enterprise customers upstream, while also exchanging routes regionally and with domestic peers.

Notable

• IPv6 is deployed and visible in the global table under 2400:aa00::/32, announced as a set of more-specific /40s and a /48.
• The total announced IPv4 space is under 30,000 addresses for a national operator serving a country of several million, which implies heavy reliance on carrier-grade NAT for mobile and broadband subscribers — a common pattern for late-growth Asian markets that never received large legacy allocations.
• Because the network is both a mobile carrier and a fixed-line ISP, addresses in it can look like either; the AS does not separate mobile and fixed into distinct ASNs.

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

Announced prefixes

• 43.224.36.0/22
• 103.43.76.0/22
• 103.240.240.0/22
• 115.84.64.0/18
• 202.137.128.0/19
• 202.144.184.0/21
• 2400:aa00::/32

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS58453 China Mobile International Limited
• AS3491 PCCW Global (HK) Ltd.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS38001 NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
• AS2497 Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS45430 SBN-IIG/AWN-IIG transit provider
• AS4837 CHINA UNICOM China169 Backbone
• AS9931 National Telecom Public Company Limited
• AS5511 Orange S.A.

Downstream networks

• AS136486 Datacom Sole Co., Ltd
• AS139341 ACE
• AS133500 Lao Gateway Co., Ltd
• AS150716 AP Network Communication
• AS136748 Etern Laos Communication Technology Sole Co .,Ltd
• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS24429 Zhejiang Taobao Network Co.,Ltd
• AS45906 LERNET at LAOs
• AS55508 Lao National Internet Center (LANIC)
• AS131297 Lao-Viet Bank, CO.,LTD
• AS139011 Banque pour le Commerce Exterieur Lao Public
• AS139057 Edgenext Legend Dynasty Pte. Ltd.

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS58453 China Mobile International Limited
• AS136486 Datacom Sole Co., Ltd
• AS139341 ACE
• AS3491 PCCW Global (HK) Ltd.
• AS133500 Lao Gateway Co., Ltd
• AS38001 NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS150716 AP Network Communication
• AS2497 Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
• AS136748 Etern Laos Communication Technology Sole Co .,Ltd
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS45430 SBN-IIG/AWN-IIG transit provider
• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS24429 Zhejiang Taobao Network Co.,Ltd
• AS45906 LERNET at LAOs
• AS55508 Lao National Internet Center (LANIC)
• AS131297 Lao-Viet Bank, CO.,LTD
• AS139011 Banque pour le Commerce Exterieur Lao Public
• AS24337 Skytelecom , Transit provider and ISP in Vientiene.
• AS4837 CHINA UNICOM China169 Backbone
• AS139057 Edgenext Legend Dynasty Pte. Ltd.
• AS5511 Orange S.A.
• AS45458 SBN-ISP/AWN-ISP and SBN-NIX/AWN-NIX

Internet exchanges

• Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore — Singapore, Singapore
• Equinix Internet Exchange Hong Kong — Hong Kong, China
• BroadBand Internet eXchange Hong Kong — Hong Kong, China
• JASTEL IX — Bangkok, Thailand