life:) · Belarus
life:) is a mobile operator in Belarus, run by the legal entity BeST CJSC, which Turkcell owns in full. The registry records one confirmed mobile ASN, AS44087, held by BEST-AS "BeST" CJSC, and one network code pair, MCC 257 with MNC 04. Its site is life.com.by.
Autonomous systems
Holder names and prefix counts come from the RIPE NCC's RIPEstat Data API, fetched on 2026-09-06. Role and confidence come from the evidence linked in each row; "confirmed" means a PeeringDB or RIPEstat record, or the operator's own site, names the operator.
Mobile network codes
The MCC identifies the country and the MNC identifies the operator inside it. Together they appear in the IMSI of every SIM on the network and in device diagnostics; they are how a handset knows which network it is on.
About life:)
The registry holds one ASN for life:), AS44087, registered to BEST-AS "BeST" CJSC and marked as the operator's mobile network with confirmed confidence. At the last probe it announced 39 IPv4 prefixes and 9 IPv6 prefixes, a small announced footprint by prefix count. PeeringDB has no record for AS44087, so the registry carries no exchange or network-type information from that source. The 4G and 5G radio the operator sells runs over the state wholesale network beCloud, AS60330, which the registry does not list as a life:) ASN.
An address whose origin ASN is AS44087 is routed by life:), and the registry marks that ASN as the operator's mobile network. With no PeeringDB entry behind it, the ASN registration and the recorded role are the only descriptions available, and neither breaks the ASN down by access type, so fixed or business connections can originate from it too. An address on beCloud's AS60330 belongs to the wholesale infrastructure operator rather than to life:), even when a life:) subscriber is on that radio network.
Research note. Legal entity: CJSC 'Belarusian Telecommunications Network' (BeST); Ministry of Communications page lists website www.life.com.by. Interfax reports Turkcell holds 100% of BeST. AS44087 was not in the candidate list (which was empty for this carrier); found via RIPEstat search, holder BEST-AS "BeST" CJSC (RIPE org ORG-CA780-RIPE). PeeringDB returned 404 for asn=44087 (no record). 5G: life.com.by/notice/news/5g documents a May 2025 trial; the April 2026 commercial launch is reported by reform.news, which cites the operator announcement at life.com.by/notice/news/5g-launch (that operator page could not be fetched from this location). 4G/5G radio infrastructure is provided by the state wholesale operator beCloud (AS60330 BCTBY-AS). Operator site refused connections; facts taken from search-indexed content of the cited life.com.by URLs.
Checking whether an IP belongs to life:)
Look up the origin ASN of the address and compare it with the table above. RIPEstat answers for any address, and the RADB whois mirror lists the routes registered under an ASN.
curl -s "https://stat.ripe.net/data/prefix-overview/data.json?resource=203.0.113.9" | jq '.data.asns'whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS44087' | grep ^routeQuestions
What is life:)'s ASN?
The registry records one confirmed ASN for life:), AS44087, held by BEST-AS "BeST" CJSC and marked as its mobile network, with RIPEstat as the evidence source. At the last probe the ASN announced 39 IPv4 prefixes and 9 IPv6 prefixes.
What is the MCC/MNC of life:) in Belarus?
life:) uses MCC 257, the mobile country code for Belarus, with MNC 04. That is the only network code pair the registry records for the operator, whose legal entity is BeST CJSC.
Is an IP from AS44087 a mobile IP?
AS44087 is recorded as the mobile ASN of life:), so an address originating there is routed by the operator that runs its mobile service. The registry does not separate access types within the ASN, and PeeringDB has no record for it, so the origin alone does not settle whether a given address is mobile.
Sources
- https://mpt.gov.by/en/closed-joint-stock-company-belarusian-telecommunications-network
- https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/86012/
- https://stat.ripe.net/data/as-overview/data.json?resource=AS44087
- https://stat.ripe.net/data/searchcomplete/data.json?resource=BeST
- https://mcc-mnc.org/networks/257_04
- https://life.com.by/notice/news/4g-all-regions
- https://life.com.by/notice/news/network-results2024
- https://life.com.by/notice/news/5g
- https://reform.news/en/life-launches-5g-network
- https://mpt.gov.by/en/node/2733/printable/print
- RIPEstat Data API (holder, announced prefixes)
- PeeringDB API (network records)