Internet service provider
Comtel Communications… IP ranges and locations
Comtel Communications… (AS37333): residential ISP in South Africa, 6 IPv4 prefixes, 9,472 addresses, #28 of 163 ISPs. Cities served, largest ranges and the VPN/proxy answer.
At a glance
- Name
- Comtel Communications - Comtel Communications
- Network type
- Residential
- ASN
- AS37333
- Country
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Share of South Africa IPv4 space
- 0.04%
- Largest range
- 41.76.32.0/21
Cities and regions served
Geolocating the first address of each of the 6 largest ranges places Comtel Communications… customers in Benoni, Melkbosstrand, Langebaan, Century City, Empangeni, Johannesburg. Residential blocks are assigned per region, so a lookup of a Comtel Communications… address usually resolves to the subscriber's metropolitan area rather than an exact street.
Is Comtel Communications… a VPN or proxy?
No. Comtel Communications… is classified as a residential ISP network and none of the 6 sampled ranges appears in the datacenter list, so an address from AS37333 normally belongs to a subscriber's home router or phone. That is the profile of a genuine residential IP — the opposite of a VPN or datacenter proxy. Note that residential proxy networks can still route through consumer devices on any ISP, so a clean network is a strong signal, not a guarantee.
Largest IPv4 ranges
| CIDR | First address | Last address | Addresses |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41.76.32.0/21 | 41.76.32.0 | 41.76.39.255 | 2,048 |
| 41.77.200.0/21 | 41.77.200.0 | 41.77.207.255 | 2,048 |
| 41.138.64.0/21 | 41.138.64.0 | 41.138.71.255 | 2,048 |
| 102.67.48.0/22 | 102.67.48.0 | 102.67.53.255 | 1,536 |
| 154.73.240.0/22 | 154.73.240.0 | 154.73.244.255 | 1,280 |
| 154.73.246.0/23 | 154.73.246.0 | 154.73.247.255 | 512 |
Other ISPs in South Africa
| Name | ASN | Network type | IPv4 addresses |
|---|---|---|---|
| MTN SA MTN SA | AS16637 | Mobile carrier | 2,471,424 |
| MTN SA MTN SA | AS12091 | Mobile carrier | 1,245,696 |
| Liquid Telecommunications South Africa… | AS36937 | Residential | 879,104 |
| Vox Telecom Ltd Vox Telecom Ltd | AS11845 | Residential | 247,808 |
| HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTD HERO TELECOMS… | AS328471 | Residential | 161,280 |
| Metro Fibre Networx (Pty) Ltd Metro… | AS327782 | Residential | 157,184 |
How this page is built
The network type comes from the registry name of AS37333 (telecom, broadband, cable, mobile and similar words mark it as a residential ISP or carrier), ranges from iptoasn routing data, locations from DB-IP Lite (CC BY 4.0) and the datacenter check from the open datacenter list. Figures are recomputed daily.