Montana · network infrastructure
PeeringDB records ten facilities in Montana across six cities, holding 24 network presences. Billings has four of the buildings and nine presences, iConnect Missoula lists seven and iConnect Helena five. No internet exchange appears in the Montana snapshot, and the state's peer count is zero, so networks here meet their peers elsewhere.
Colocation facilities
Buildings where networks put equipment. The network count is how many PeeringDB members list a presence there.
| Facility | City | Networks present |
|---|---|---|
| iConnect Billings Fiber Hotel | Billings | 7 |
| iConnect Missoula | Missoula | 7 |
| iConnect Helena | Helena | 5 |
| Parsec | Billings | 1 |
| Montana Opticom | Bozeman | 1 |
| ACT Colstrip | Colstrip | 1 |
| North Data Center, LLC | Great Falls | 1 |
| Cogent Billings | Billings | 1 |
| YRIX | Billings | 0 |
| JSLLC Bozeman | Bozeman | 0 |
What a Montana IP address tells you
iConnect holds the three fullest records in Montana, seven networks in its Billings Fiber Hotel, seven in Missoula and five in Helena. Those three buildings account for 19 of the 24 presences counted statewide. Billings adds Parsec and Cogent Billings with one network each, plus a YRIX record listing none. Single facilities cover Bozeman, Colstrip and Great Falls with one network apiece, and a second Bozeman record, JSLLC, lists none. Montana has no exchange in the snapshot, so this traffic leaves the state to reach peers.
A Montana IP address describes the operator's registration, not the location of the device holding it. Address blocks geolocate from the record an operator publishes, and a regional network can register one address for prefixes used across a wide area. Mobile carriers concentrate this further, with AT&T on five mobile ASNs, T-Mobile on five and Verizon on seven, each pooling subscribers behind regional gateways. A phone in Great Falls can present an address that databases place in Billings, or in another state altogether.
Checking the origin ASN on the prefix is the better test. With no exchange in the state, a network reaching Montana either sits in one of the ten facilities or carries traffic in over transit, and the ASN separates the two. A prefix announced from one of the carrier mobile ASNs came from a phone network whatever city a geolocation database reports, and the netname on that prefix records what the operator declared.
Mobile carriers in the United States
A mobile address anywhere in Montana is routed by one of the country's operators. Each entry lists the operator's ASNs so you can check which network an address belongs to.
Questions
How many data centers are in Montana?
The snapshot lists ten facilities across six cities, with 24 network presences. Billings holds four of the records, Bozeman two, and Missoula, Helena, Colstrip and Great Falls one each. Two of the ten, YRIX in Billings and JSLLC in Bozeman, list no networks.
Is there an internet exchange in Montana?
No exchange is recorded in Montana and the state's peer count is zero. Networks in Billings, Missoula, Helena and the smaller cities exchange traffic over private links or carry it to exchanges in other states, which is where their peering sessions sit.
Can I get an IP address in Montana?
Placement follows the operator's address registration rather than a customer's choice of state. A prefix reads as Montana when the network holding it registered a Montana address for that block. Mobile addresses follow carrier gateways instead, and AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon each pool subscribers across areas wider than the state.
Sources
- PeeringDB - facilities, network presence and exchange participants, snapshot 2026-09-07
- PROXIES.SX carrier and ASN registry - the operators routing mobile addresses in this country