AS9808

AS9808 is one of the principal origin ASNs of CMNET, the IP backbone of China Mobile — the largest mobile operator in the world — registered through APNIC out of a CNNIC sub-block to China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. in Beijing. China Mobile reported roughly 1.009 billion mobile subscribers and around 329 million wireline broadband customers at the end of September 2025, and AS9808 carries a large slice of that consumer traffic, originating on the order of 14,200 IPv4 prefixes (~37.8 million addresses) alongside a sizable IPv6 footprint. Internationally it sits behind China Mobile International (CMI, AS58453/AS58807), which provides its global transit and peering, and it interconnects domestically with China Telecom (AS4134) and China Unicom (AS4837). The decisive triage consideration is scale plus carrier-grade NAT: with a billion-plus subscribers behind dynamic, heavily shared addressing, a single IP commonly represents many subscribers over time, so per-IP attribution is unreliable and behavior should be tied to subscriber sessions rather than to the operator. China Mobile also operates China TieTong (AS9394) and numerous provincial CMNET ASNs. The parent is publicly listed (HKEX 0941 / SSE 600941).

Operator

China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. (APNIC org ORG-CM1-AP; org-name "China Mobile") [Confirmed] — APNIC WHOIS

Country / RIR

CN, APNIC (CNNIC sub-block) [Confirmed] — APNIC WHOIS

Allocated

~2000-01-10 (bgp.tools "Registered on") [Likely]

Org status

active; publicly listed (China Mobile Ltd., HKEX 0941 / SSE 600941) — chinamobileltd.com

Security/abuse context

billion-subscriber mobile/broadband network behind heavy CGNAT — per-IP attribution unreliable; broad security-feed presence reflects subscriber scale, not operator intent. No specific notable public abuse-campaign attribution to AS9808 itself found as of 2026-06-06 — rcrwireless.com

Network & routing

Network type

mobile-carrier (+ ISP-eyeball / transit-backbone) [Confirmed] — operator + bgp.he.net

Size

~14,221 IPv4 prefixes originated (~24,050 announced; ~37.8M addrs), ~7,100 IPv6 — bgp.he.net (2026-06)

Routing/peering

upstreams AS58453 / AS58807 (China Mobile International); peers incl. AS4134 (China Telecom), AS4837 (China Unicom), AS4538 (CERNET); CMNET selective, CMI restrictive (PeeringDB); RPKI mostly valid for v6 (~6,853 valid), partial v4 (~826 valid, 22 v4 invalid) — bgp.tools, peeringdb.com

Notable usage

principal origin ASN of CMNET (China Mobile's IP backbone); ~1.009B mobile subs + ~329M broadband (China Mobile Q3 2025) — chinamobileltd.com

Related ASNs

AS58453 / AS58807 (China Mobile International / CMI — international arm + transit); provincial CMNET ASNs AS56040–56048, AS24400/24444/24445; AS9394 (China TieTong / CTTNET); AS24311 (CMNET IPv6)

Analyst note

Chinese mobile/broadband traffic behind massive CGNAT — a single IP maps to many subscribers over time; attribute behavior to subscriber sessions, not China Mobile.