Nokia Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd. — 31 prefixes (MA-L)

Nokia Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd. holds 31 MA-L (24-bit OUI) blocks in the IEEE registry, all registered to the same address in Pudong, Shanghai — No.388 Ning Qiao Road, Jin Qiao, Shanghai 201206, CN. This is a carrier- and enterprise-class telecommunications infrastructure manufacturer, not a consumer-electronics brand, so its OUIs surface on professional networking gear rather than handsets or laptops: 5G/4G-LTE radio access network base stations, IP edge and high-end routers, optical transport equipment, fixed-broadband ONT gateways and Beacon access units, and related mobile-backhaul and data-center hardware. The company began as a Nokia / China Huaxin joint venture launched in 2017 (Nokia holding 50% plus one share), and in December 2025 Nokia completed a buyout of Huaxin's stake, making Nokia Shanghai Bell wholly Nokia-owned. It serves as Nokia's manufacturing and market platform in China. A note on dating: third-party MAC lookup tools display an "earliest registration" of 31 October 2017 for this vendor, but that is a database artifact — IEEE publishes no assignment dates for OUI/MAC blocks, so allocated_date stays a genuine null here, not a guess. For trust and asset-classification work, Nokia Shanghai Bell is NOT on the FCC Covered List or the NDAA Section 889 banned-equipment list; CVEs exist under the broader Nokia brand (SR OS routers, GPON gateways) but are not attributed to Nokia Shanghai Bell as a distinct CVE vendor entity.

IEEE assignment

31 MA-L prefixes → Nokia Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd., registered Shanghai, CN [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); holds 31 IEEE prefixes (~16.7M addresses each) [Confirmed] — IEEE the IEEE MA-L registry / maclookup.app (prefix count is a current third-party snapshot and drifts). NOTE: IEEE's public OUI data publishes NO assignment/registration date; any "date registered" (e.g. the 31 Oct 2017 value on maclookup.app) is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact.

HQ / country

No.388 Ning Qiao Road, Jin Qiao, Pudong, Shanghai 201206, P.R. China [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L

Company status

active [Confirmed] — nokia.com / mwcshanghai.com exhibitor listing

Device types

5G/4G-LTE RAN base stations, IP edge & high-end routers, optical transport equipment, fixed-broadband ONT gateways & Beacon access units, mobile backhaul, data-center networking — carrier/enterprise infrastructure only, no consumer end-user devices

[Confirmed] — fcc.report (FCC filings 2018–2025), ongoalliance.org

Verified sample prefixes (all MA-L)

28:6F:B9, 50:02:38, DC:D9:AE, 08:9C:86, 6C:22:F7, F8:22:29 [Confirmed] — IEEE the IEEE MA-L registry / maclookup.app

Other MA-L prefixes (subset of 31)

08:47:D0, E4:72:9D, 30:23:64, CC:ED:21, E0:1F:ED, 78:17:35, B0:D1:D6, 90:D2:0B, C0:54:4D, E8:F8:D0, 64:DB:F7, 78:3E:A1, AC:60:6F, 10:47:38, 4C:21:13, 0C:36:23, 90:75:BC, 54:9F:06, B8:19:04, 98:86:5D, 3C:BD:69, 50:3D:7F, 04:56:65, B4:1D:62, 88:B3:62 [Confirmed] — IEEE the IEEE MA-L registry

MA-M / MA-S blocks

none found in the IEEE MA-M registry (MA-M) or the IEEE MA-S registry (MA-S) — all assignments are full MA-L [Confirmed] — IEEE registries (cached)

Ownership history

2017 Nokia/China Huaxin JV launched (Nokia 50%+1 share); December 2025 Nokia bought out Huaxin → wholly Nokia-owned; serves as Nokia's manufacturing/market platform in China [Confirmed] — rcrwireless.com, sdxcentral.com

Security designation

NOT on FCC Covered List or NDAA Section 889 banned list (banned vendors are Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision, Dahua) [Confirmed] — fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist

Special note

CVEs exist under the broader Nokia brand (SR OS router file-system access, GPON gateway auth bypass) but Nokia Shanghai Bell is not a distinct CVE vendor entity; Nokia publishes product-security advisories at nokia.com [Likely] — cvedetails.com (Nokia vendor list)

Analyst note

A Nokia Shanghai Bell OUI on a globally-administered address identifies carrier/enterprise Nokia infrastructure, not consumer hardware — useful for classifying RAN/router/optical gear in network inventories.