ITEL MOBILE LIMITED is the IEEE-registered legal name behind the "itel" mobile-phone brand, a subsidiary of Transsion Holdings — the Shenzhen-based, Shanghai-listed group that also owns TECNO and Infinix. The registry footprint in the cached IEEE data is substantial: sixty-four MA-L (24-bit) OUI blocks plus one MA-M (28-bit) block, all registered to a Yau Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong address. itel devices are budget Android smartphones and feature phones aimed at emerging markets — sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America — so an itel OUI on a network typically flags a low-cost consumer handset rather than enterprise or specialized hardware. One operational caveat worth recording: itel handsets use globally-administered (non-randomized) MAC addresses, so unlike modern Apple/Android flagships their OUI reliably resolves and they remain readily trackable on Wi-Fi. A separate supply-chain note: the well-documented 2020 Triada/xHelper pre-installed-malware finding (Upstream Systems / CNN) was specific to the Transsion TECNO W2 model; no primary-sourced, itel-brand-specific pre-installed-malware incident was found, so any "itel ships malware" claim is an unconfirmed inference from shared-portfolio risk, not a documented fact.
- IEEE assignment
- 65 prefixes → ITEL MOBILE LIMITED (64 × MA-L 24-bit + 1 × MA-M 28-bit) [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries/oui.csv (64 rows), enrichment/registries/mam.csv (IEEE-sourced)
- Registry / block sizes
- MA-L (24-bit OUI) and MA-M (28-bit) [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries/oui.csv, enrichment/registries/mam.csv
- All 64 MA-L prefixes (canonical local cache, sorted)
- 00:C7:11, 04:B5:C1, 04:D3:20, 0C:8B:D3, 18:AC:9E, 1C:4C:48, 20:45:69, 20:D2:76, 24:F3:06, 28:2A:87, 3C:35:76, 3C:3B:99, 3C:7A:F0, 40:D2:5F, 44:DC:4E, 48:DD:9D, 4C:5C:DF, 4C:64:60, 54:13:CA, 54:21:A9, 58:C5:83, 5C:CD:A8, 68:F6:2B, 6C:A3:1E, 70:52:D8, 74:1C:27, 78:7D:48, 78:95:EB, 7C:E9:7C, 80:22:FA, 80:25:11, 80:50:F6, 88:1C:95, 88:D5:A8, 8C:D4:8E, 94:34:2F, 94:79:18, 94:C5:A6, 98:8E:D4, 9C:AF:6F, A4:F4:65, A8:D8:61, AC:FE:05, B8:C8:EB, BC:BD:9E, BC:EA:9C, C0:FB:C1, C8:17:39, C8:1E:C2, C8:9D:6D, C8:E1:93, CC:8C:17, CC:A3:BD, D0:19:D3, D0:F8:65, D8:7E:76, DC:54:3D, DC:5D:31, DC:88:A1, DC:BE:49, EC:7E:91, F0:B9:68, F8:2F:6A, FC:39:64 [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries/oui.csv
- MA-M prefix
- E0:B6:F5:D (7-hex MA-M assignment) [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries/mam.csv
- HQ / country
- RM B3 & B4 Block B, Ko Fai Industrial Building, No.7 Ko Fai Road, Yau Tong, Kowloon, HK 999077 (registry address) [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries/oui.csv
- Registration date
- IEEE publishes NO assignment/registration date for OUI/MAC prefixes; the "05 Feb 2016" figure on third-party lookup tools is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact. allocated_date stays Unknown by design. [Confirmed (the absence); date itself Unknown] — enrichment/registries/oui.csv (no date column)
- Brand / normalized name
- itel Mobile [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itel_Mobile
- Parent company
- Transsion Holdings (Shanghai-listed; also owns TECNO and Infinix) [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itel_Mobile
- Founding year
- 2007 [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itel_Mobile
- Company status
- active [Confirmed] — https://www.itel-life.com/products/brand/about-us
- Device types
- Android smartphones, feature phones, tablets (secondary: laptops, smart TVs, smartwatches, accessories) [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itel_Mobile, https://www.itel-life.com/products/brand/about-us
- OS platform
- Android (customized as itelOS); feature phones use a proprietary RTOS; no iOS [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itel_Mobile
- Market segment
- budget/entry-level consumer devices for emerging markets (70+ countries; Africa, South Asia, SE Asia, Middle East, Latin America) [Confirmed] — https://www.itel-life.com/products/brand/about-us
- Website
- https://www.itel-life.com/ (official). Note: itel.com is an unrelated Canadian ISP (iTel Networks); itelmobile.com is a parked/for-sale domain. [Confirmed] — https://www.itel-life.com/products/brand/about-us
- Security note
- 2020 Triada/xHelper pre-installed malware (Upstream Systems / CNN) was specific to the Transsion TECNO W2 model; Google attributed it to a malicious third-party supplier, not Transsion firmware. No primary-sourced itel-brand-specific incident found; itel-specific pre-installed-malware risk is Unknown/unconfirmed (shared-portfolio inference only). [Likely (general supply-chain risk); itel-specific claim Unknown] — https://www.upstreamsystems.com/press/press-releases/xhelper-triada-malware-pre-installed-on-thousands-of-low-cost-chinese-android-devices-in-emerging-markets/, https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/26/tech/tecno-malware-africa/index.html
- Expected network traffic
- budget Android consumer patterns — Google Play Services, itelOS OTA checks, social/messaging apps (WhatsApp, Facebook); no enterprise/specialized protocols expected [Likely] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itel_Mobile
- Related vendors
- TECNO, Infinix (sibling Transsion brands; hold separate registrations)
- Analyst note
- itel devices use globally-administered (non-randomized) MAC addresses, so the OUI reliably resolves and the device is readily trackable on Wi-Fi — unlike randomizing modern flagships. An itel OUI typically indicates a low-cost emerging-market handset.