Most providers in Ghana resell someone else's capacity. Boldnet does not. We hold our own AFRINIC address space and AS number, run our own routing, and operate our core from PAIX Accra. This page sets out exactly what that means — because for a serious buyer, it should be verifiable rather than asserted.
The difference sounds technical. It is commercial. A reseller's service quality, routing, address space and fault resolution are all decided by somebody else. Ours are decided by us.
Boldnet holds IPv4 and IPv6 blocks allocated directly by AFRINIC, the regional internet registry for Africa. Addresses we assign to you are ours to assign.
AS329477 is Boldnet's autonomous system. We announce our own routes to the global internet using BGP, and we control how traffic reaches our customers.
Our routing core is housed at PAIX Accra, Ghana's carrier-neutral data centre, where the country's carriers and exchanges physically meet.
Ask any provider to describe their upstream arrangements. The answer tells you more about the service you will receive than any speed figure.
whois.afrinic.net, or through any public routing-information service. We would encourage you to do so — and to ask the same of anyone else you are considering.
Route hijacking and misconfiguration take networks offline somewhere in the world most weeks. The defences are well understood and unevenly deployed. We deploy them.
Every Boldnet prefix carries a Route Origin Authorisation, cryptographically signed under AFRINIC's Resource Public Key Infrastructure. This tells every network on the internet which autonomous system is permitted to announce our address space — so an accidental or malicious announcement by anyone else can be rejected automatically.
Our routing policy is published in the AFRINIC Internet Routing Registry, and our upstream carriers build their filters from it. Customer prefixes are accepted only when they are registered and authorised, which prevents one customer's misconfiguration from affecting another's service.
IPv4 addresses ran out years ago. Most Ghanaian enterprises are still served entirely over IPv4, behind carrier-grade address translation they were never told about.
Boldnet holds 2c0f:55a0::/32 directly from AFRINIC. Enterprise customers receive a native IPv6 allocation alongside their IPv4 addressing — routed, not translated. That is enough address space for every site, every subnet and every device you are ever likely to connect.
A growing share of cloud services, mobile networks and government platforms now prefer or require IPv6. Organisations without it increasingly find themselves behind translation layers that break inbound connectivity, complicate security logging, and make some applications behave unpredictably for reasons nobody can explain.
Tell us where your sites are and what you run. We will show you the path your traffic would take.
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