AS24757

AS24757 is an active autonomous system number registered under AFRINIC to Ethio Telecom (formerly the Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation / ETC; WHOIS org handle ORG-ETC2-AFRINIC), the state-owned national incumbent telecom of Ethiopia and the country's dominant ISP. The AFRINIC RDAP autnum top-level events[] record a registration date of 2007-01-25 and a last-changed date of 2025-12-11; the record itself notes the object was transferred from the RIPE Database in 2007, which is consistent with the registration event. Operationally this is a classic eyeball network: routing sources (bgp.he.net, bgp.tools) agree it originates roughly 501 prefixes (about 498 IPv4 and 3 IPv6), with all announced prefixes carrying valid RPKI Route Origin Authorizations and zero RPKI-invalid originations. The contact and admin entities all resolve to @ethiotelecom.et addresses in Addis Ababa, and the abuse channel is abuse@ethiotelecom.et. Two routing caveats stand out. First, bgp.he.net flags that AS24757 announces bogons (non-routable/unallocated space) — a BGP-hygiene concern distinct from RPKI validity, though the specific prefixes are not enumerated in public sources. Second, the RDAP remarks list AS5511 (Orange S.A.) and AS17175 as historic upstreams carried over from the 2007 RIPE transfer; live transit today per bgp.tools runs through AS30990 (Djibouti Telecom), AS37425 (SomCable), AS15706 (Sudatel) and AS23764 (China Telecom Global) — reflecting Ethiopia's landlocked reliance on neighbouring transit gateways. No notable public abuse signal was found as of 2026-06-25 beyond routine CleanTalk spam-tracker presence (baseline consumer-ISP noise); no Spamhaus DROP/SBL listing, no attributed BGP hijack, and no NANOG escalation surfaced.

Operator

Ethio Telecom (formerly Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation / ETC; AFRINIC org handle ORG-ETC2-AFRINIC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) [Confirmed] — AFRINIC RDAP (rdap.afrinic.net/rdap/autnum/AS24757), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethio_Telecom

Country / RIR

ET, AFRINIC [Confirmed] — AFRINIC RDAP autnum (rdap.afrinic.net/rdap/autnum/AS24757)

Allocated

2007-01-25 (AFRINIC RDAP autnum top-level registration event — a first-party RIR registry fact); last changed 2025-12-11 [Confirmed] — AFRINIC RDAP autnum top-level events[]. Note: third-party trackers disagree (bgp.tools lists 2007-09-20; ipinfo lists 2002-03-14) — the RDAP first-party registration event is authoritative

Org status

state-owned enterprise owned by the Ethiopian federal government; historically a telecommunications monopoly; market partially liberalized with Safaricom Ethiopia's 2022 entry [Confirmed] — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethio_Telecom

Contacts

abuse@ethiotelecom.et; admin/tech contacts resolve to @ethiotelecom.et in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [Confirmed] — AFRINIC RDAP entities (NB13-AFRINIC, AL65-AFRINIC, LR19-AFRINIC, NM102-AFRINIC, TN50-AFRINIC)

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal as of 2026-06-25 beyond routine CleanTalk spam-tracker presence (consumer-ISP baseline); bgp.he.net flags bogon announcements (BGP-hygiene concern, specific prefixes not enumerated); no Spamhaus DROP/SBL listing, no attributed BGP hijack, no NANOG escalation found [Likely — absence-of-evidence on Spamhaus/NANOG, not a direct lookup] — cleantalk.org/blacklists/as24757, bgp.he.net/AS24757, bgp.tools/as/24757

Network & routing

Network type

national incumbent telecom / eyeball ISP — mobile (GSM/3G/4G LTE, pre-commercial 5G), fixed-line, broadband, plus Telebirr mobile money; sole incumbent ISP until Safaricom Ethiopia entered in 2022 [Confirmed] — peeringdb.com/asn/24757, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethio_Telecom

Size

~501 prefixes originated (~498 IPv4, 3 IPv6); ~297,000 IPv4 addresses (~1,160 /24 equivalents) [Confirmed for prefix counts; Likely for the IP-count estimate] — bgp.he.net/AS24757, bgp.tools/as/24757

Routing/peering

live upstreams (bgp.tools) AS30990 (Djibouti Telecom), AS37425 (SomCable), AS15706 (Sudatel), AS23764 (China Telecom Global), upstream_count 4; ~6 IPv4 peers per bgp.he.net (incl. AS13335 Cloudflare); customer cone ~3 downstream networks [Confirmed for upstreams/peers; Likely for cone]; PeeringDB lists peering policy as "No" / transit-only, no IXP memberships

[Confirmed] — bgp.tools/as/24757, bgp.he.net/AS24757, peeringdb.com/net/13874

AS Rank

~5,779 (CAIDA AS Rank; asnName EthioNet-AS, source AFRINIC); CAIDA topology shows asnDegree.provider 4 / customer cone 3 ASNs, consistent with a transit-buying eyeball network [Confirmed] — api.asrank.caida.org

RPKI

all ~501 announced prefixes carry valid ROAs; 0 RPKI-invalid originations [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS24757, bgp.tools/as/24757

Notable usage

Ethiopia's primary national operator and historically sole ISP; 10,000+ mobile towers; pre-commercial 5G launched in Addis Ababa (2023); operates Telebirr mobile money; international gateway capacity reported ~2.48 Tbit/s as of 2024/2025 [Confirmed for primary-operator status; Likely for the specific capacity/tower figures per operator profile] — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethio_Telecom, ethiotelecom.et/profile

RDAP remarks (historic routing)

import from AS5511 (Orange S.A.) accept ANY; import from AS17175 accept ANY; export to AS5511/AS17175 announce AS24757 — these are historic upstreams carried from the 2007 RIPE transfer, not current live transit [Confirmed] — AFRINIC RDAP autnum remarks

Connectivity context

landlocked; international transit via submarine cables reached through Djibouti, Sudan, Kenya and Somaliland; a June 2025 slowdown traced to AAE-1 / SEA-ME-WE-5 submarine-cable cuts illustrates single-gateway dependence

[Confirmed] — ethio-tech.com (what-really-happened-with-ethio-telecoms-internet-slow-down), peeringdb.com/net/13874

Analyst note

Active national-incumbent eyeball ASN. allocated_date is taken from the AFRINIC RDAP autnum top-level registration event (2007-01-25), not from third-party trackers that report differing dates. Bogon flag and absent-from-RIR abuse contact are governance/hygiene notes, not malicious signal.