WE ASN, MCC/MNC and IP prefixes

WE is the mobile brand of Telecom Egypt, a company the Egyptian government controls. The registry records one confirmed ASN for the company, AS8452, but documents it in a fixed role rather than a mobile one, so no ASN is confirmed as carrying WE mobile traffic. Its network code is MCC 602 with MNC 04.

The registry holds one autonomous system for the company behind WE, AS8452, whose RIPE holder name is TE-AS and which PeeringDB lists as Telecom Egypt with the NSP classification. It is the historic TE Data fixed-broadband and transit network, and the registry records its role as fixed because no source states that WE mobile traffic rides on it. At the last probe AS8452 announced 2,571 IPv4 prefixes and 9 IPv6 prefixes.

An address whose origin ASN is AS8452 is routed by Telecom Egypt, and beyond that the registry does not settle what kind of connection it is. The address could be mobile, fixed or enterprise, and the ASN alone does not decide between them. Since no ASN is documented as carrying WE mobile traffic, there is no number here that flags a WE cellular address. Anyone classifying Egyptian traffic should treat AS8452 as Telecom Egypt routing and look for separate evidence of the access type.

Research note. None of the supplied asn.txt candidates belong to Telecom Egypt; all are unrelated Egyptian companies. AS8452 (not in the candidate list) is Telecom Egypt's ASN: RIPEstat holder 'TE-AS', RIPE DB mnt-by TE-Data-MNT, PeeringDB id 6589 name 'Telecom Egypt' aka 'TEData' website te.eg, 2,578 prefixes / ~7.6M IPv4 addresses per bgp.he.net. It is the historic TE Data fixed-broadband/transit network; no source states that WE mobile traffic uses it, so role is recorded as fixed. MNC 602-04 for WE confirmed by mcc-mnc.org (community-maintained) and Wikipedia; candidate list supplied had no MCC/MNC rows. te.eg 5G page states WE offers 5G ('الجيل الخامس من WE') with 4G fallback. WE mobile brand launched 18 Sep 2017; government holds 70% per Wikipedia.