Icomera — 2 prefixes (MA-L)

Icomera is a Swedish in-vehicle connectivity company, founded in 1999 in Gothenburg by four graduates of Chalmers University of Technology, that markets itself as the world's first onboard Wi-Fi provider, having fitted passenger trains with Wi-Fi as early as 2003. The cached IEEE MA-L registry lists two 24-bit OUI blocks under the identical organization name and address — 40:40:6B and 40:40:6C, both registered to "Icomera" at Odinsgatan 28, Gothenburg, SE 411 03 — and both are independently corroborated by the third-party maclookup.app database, giving confidence this is a genuine, non-fragmented company record rather than a shell registration. Icomera's product line centers on multi-modem cellular aggregation routers for buses, trains, and trams — the X5 and X7 "applications routers," built around its "SureWAN" bonded-connection technology, with recent additions covering Starlink resale and Wi-Fi 7 access points — deployed at scale on operators including Deutsche Bahn, SNCF Intercites, Trenitalia Frecciarossa, and UK operator Northern. Corporately, Icomera was acquired by ENGIE Ineo in 2017 and now sits inside Equans, the Bouygues-owned services group. On security, Icomera advertises IEC 62443-4-1 and ISO 27001 certification for its development lifecycle; a widely-cited Pen Test Partners piece on hacking train passenger Wi-Fi was checked directly and does not name Icomera or any specific vendor, so it is not treated here as an Icomera-specific finding.

IEEE assignment

2 MA-L prefixes → Icomera, registered Gothenburg, SE [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry (rows 12209, 32716)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); 2 prefixes held, corroborated by an independent third-party database listing the same 2 blocks [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry; https://maclookup.app/vendors/icomera

HQ / country

Odinsgatan 28, Gothenburg, SE 411 03 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Company status

active, founded 1999 in Gothenburg by four Chalmers University of Technology graduates; acquired by ENGIE Ineo in 2017, now part of Equans (Bouygues group) [Likely] — https://www.icomera.com/about/; https://www.engie.com/en/journalists/press-releases/icomera-specialist-onboard-communications-solutions-public-transport; https://www.icomera.com/engie-ineo-acquires-icomera/

Device types

in-vehicle mobile connectivity routers and Wi-Fi access points for trains, buses, coaches, and trams [Confirmed] — https://www.icomera.com/about/; https://www.icomera.com/wifi-on-trains-how-does-it-work/

Notable products

X5 and X7 applications routers (SureWAN multi-modem cellular aggregation), Starlink-reselling satellite integration, Wi-Fi 7 access points [Likely] — https://issuu.com/icomera/docs/pf-00807_0.5_x7_product_sheet; https://issuu.com/icomera/docs/pf-00140_f_x5_product_sheet

Named deployments

Deutsche Bahn (since 2016), SNCF Intercites, Trenitalia Frecciarossa, Northern Rail (UK) [Likely] — https://www.icomera.com/success-stories/northern/; https://railway-news.com/icomera-the-worlds-first-onboard-wi-fi-provider-leading-innovation-since-2003/

Verified prefixes

40:40:6B, 40:40:6C [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry; https://maclookup.app/vendors/icomera; the Wireshark manufacturer database (rows 25615-25616)

Date registered

Unknown — IEEE publishes no assignment/registration dates for OUI/MA-L blocks; not fabricated. Third-party per-prefix "registration dates" shown by maclookup.app (40:40:6B → 2010-04-11; 40:40:6C → 2021-05-06) are database artifacts, not IEEE facts, and are not recorded here as such. [Confirmed]

Security context

Icomera advertises IEC 62443-4-1 and ISO 27001 certification for its product-development lifecycle. A widely-cited Pen Test Partners article on hacking train passenger Wi-Fi (default admin credentials, missing network segregation) was read in full and does not name Icomera, any other vendor, or any router model — it is generic industry commentary, not an Icomera-specific finding, and is not attributed to Icomera here. No CVE or NVD entry specific to Icomera hardware was found. [Likely for certification claims — self-reported; Confirmed that the Pen Test Partners piece does not name Icomera] — https://railway-news.com/icomera-achieves-major-cybersecurity-milestone-with-iec-62443-4-1-certification/; https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/hacking-train-passenger-wi-fi/

Analyst note

an Icomera OUI reliably flags in-vehicle transit connectivity hardware (train/bus/coach onboard routers and Wi-Fi APs) rather than a consumer device; treat generic transit-Wi-Fi security commentary (e.g. the Pen Test Partners piece) as industry-level context, not a confirmed Icomera-specific vulnerability, absent a named disclosure.