China Telecom IP Ranges
China Telecom's backbone is registered with APNIC as AS4134 under the AS name CHINANET-BACKBONE, and the organisation line on the record is a street address rather than a company name. Its address space is delegated province by province underneath.
- Provider
- China Telecom
- Primary ASN
- AS4134
- Category
- ISP
- Headquarters
- Beijing, China
- Announced IPv4 prefixes
- 734
- Registry
- APNIC
Known IP ranges
These prefixes are currently announced to the global routing table by AS4134 (CHINANET-BACKBONE - No.31,Jin-rong Street). Prefix sets change over time - use WHOIS Lookup for the authoritative record on any specific address.
183.0.0.0/10
49.64.0.0/11
183.128.0.0/11
115.192.0.0/11
113.64.0.0/11
180.96.0.0/11
171.208.0.0/12
116.16.0.0/12
58.208.0.0/12
223.144.0.0/12
240e::/20
240e::/24
240e:7b0::/28 (IPv6)
What does a China Telecom IP mean in a privacy test?
A China Telecom address as your visible IP means traffic left over the CHINANET access network with nothing tunnelling it. The ASN on its own is a coarse answer: query the specific address in APNIC instead and the record usually names a province, which is a far narrower statement than AS4134 alone can make.
Where to get China Telecom's address list
China Telecom publishes no allowlist, so the APNIC database is the source, and its aut-num is one of the more idiosyncratic records in this section. AS4134 carries the AS name CHINANET-BACKBONE, the descriptive lines read No.31,Jin-rong Street Beijing 100032 and for backbone of chinanet, and the object was registered on 4 September 2008 and last changed in June 2021. The prefixes above are the largest currently announced. The AS4134 page carries the record with the routing detail.
The inetnum objects underneath say much more than the aut-num does. Query 183.0.0.0 and the record is CHINANET-GD, covering 183.0.0.0/10, described as the CHINANET Guangdong province network under China Telecom's Data Communication Division. The whole of CHINANET is delegated this way, so a per-address query returns a province where the ASN returns a country. That is the query worth making, and it is the one an ASN-only lookup skips.
What AS4134 covers, and what it does not
AS4134 is the general CHINANET backbone, carrying consumer and business access. It is not the whole of China Telecom's routing: the company also runs AS4809, registered as CHINATELECOM-CORE-WAN-CN2 and described as the China Telecom Next Generation Carrier Network, as a separate autonomous system. An address on one is not on the other, so a rule written against AS4134 alone does not cover everything China Telecom carries.
What a match does establish is the operator and, with the inetnum query, the province. What it does not establish is the kind of connection. The registry does not label consumer access separately from business circuits or from machines a customer rents inside China Telecom's own facilities, so an address here can be a household or a server, and the record will not tell you which. That is a real difference from a network like SoftBank's, where the reverse DNS names every address as a subscriber line.
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Frequently asked questions
What IP ranges does China Telecom use?
China Telecom announces its CHINANET backbone under AS4134, registered with APNIC under the AS name CHINANET-BACKBONE. The largest blocks currently routed there are listed above, among them 183.0.0.0/10, 49.64.0.0/11 and 183.128.0.0/11. No allowlist is published, so APNIC and the routing table are the checkable sources.
Why does a China Telecom IP appear in my privacy test?
A China Telecom address as your visible IP means traffic left over the CHINANET access network with nothing tunnelling it. The ASN on its own is a coarse answer: query the specific address in APNIC instead and the record usually names a province, which is a far narrower statement than AS4134 alone can make.
How do I find which province a China Telecom IP is in?
Query the address itself in APNIC rather than the ASN. CHINANET space is delegated per province, so 183.0.0.0 returns CHINANET-GD, described as the CHINANET Guangdong province network. The aut-num for AS4134 gives you only the country.
Why does the China Telecom WHOIS record show a street address?
Because that is what the descriptive lines on the APNIC aut-num contain: No.31,Jin-rong Street Beijing 100032, alongside the line for backbone of chinanet. It is the registered record rather than an error in the lookup.
Is AS4134 the only China Telecom network?
No. China Telecom also runs AS4809, registered as CHINATELECOM-CORE-WAN-CN2 and described as the China Telecom Next Generation Carrier Network, as a separate autonomous system. A filter matching AS4134 alone will not see addresses announced there.