Pantech Co., Ltd. — 6 prefixes (MA-L)

A MAC address beginning with 00:0F:E4, 00:15:D3, 2C:30:68, A0:78:BA, D0:57:85, or D0:95:C7 belongs to Pantech Co., Ltd. (or its predecessor entity, Pantech&Curitel Communications, Inc.), a South Korean mobile-handset manufacturer, and is typically seen on a Wi-Fi-equipped Vega-series smartphone or feature phone.

The six MA-L blocks span two organization names: an earlier 00:15:D3 registered to "Pantech&Curitel Communications, Inc." at a Seocho-dong, Seoul address, and five later blocks (000FE4, 2C3068, A078BA, D05785, D095C7) registered to "Pantech Co., Ltd." mostly at a Gimpo-si, Gyounggi-Do address. Multiple grants over time are consistent with a manufacturer large enough to exhaust earlier /24 blocks as it shipped additional Wi-Fi-equipped handsets and tablets, e.g. the Vega No.6 (IM-A860L), Vega R3 (IM-A850L), and Vega LTE-A (IM-A880S).

Pantech was a real, independently-documented handset OEM — it reportedly peaked as South Korea's #2 handset maker around 2012 before Samsung took a 10% stake in 2013. The company filed for receivership in South Korea in August 2014 and sought US bankruptcy protection the same year; it was acquired by KNA Holdings on 2017-10-27. Current (2026) operating status could not be confirmed — the vendor's own site, pantech.co.kr, did not resolve during this research pass.

No IEEE registration/assignment dates are published for these OUIs; any "date registered" seen on third-party MAC lookup databases is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact, and none was recorded here. A targeted search for Pantech-specific device CVEs or security advisories returned no relevant results — reported as an unconfirmed absence, not a verified clean record.

IEEE assignment

6 prefixes → Pantech Co., Ltd. (5) / Pantech&Curitel Communications, Inc. (1), registered South Korea [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (cached 2026-07-10)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); 6 IEEE prefixes for this vendor grouping [Confirmed] — IEEE the IEEE MA-L registry

HQ / country

110-1 Ongjeong-Ri, Tongjin-Eup Gimpo-Si, Gyounggi-Do, KR 415-865 (later blocks); 1451-34 Seocho-dong, Seocho-Gu, Seoul, KR 137-070 (earliest block, Pantech&Curitel) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L

Company status

Filed for receivership / US bankruptcy protection in 2014; acquired by KNA Holdings on 2017-10-27; current (2026) status unconfirmed, vendor site pantech.co.kr did not resolve during research [Likely] — mobileworldlive.com, pitchbook.com

Device types

Wi-Fi-equipped Vega-series smartphones and feature phones [Likely] — gsmarena.com, devicespecifications.com, xdaforums.com

Notable products

Vega No.6 (IM-A860L), Vega R3 (IM-A850L), Vega LTE-A (IM-A880S) [Likely] — gsmarena.com, devicespecifications.com

Verified sample prefixes (all MA-L)

00:0F:E4, 00:15:D3, 2C:30:68, A0:78:BA, D0:57:85, D0:95:C7 [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L

Registration dates

Unknown — IEEE does not publish assignment/registration dates for OUI blocks; third-party "date registered" values are database artifacts, not recorded here [Confirmed] — IEEE the IEEE MA-L registry

Security context

Unknown — no Pantech-specific device CVEs or advisories found in a targeted search (absence not independently confirmed clean) [Unknown]

Related vendors

Pantech Wireless (US distribution arm); Pantech&Curitel Communications, Inc. (predecessor entity, pre-merger name) [Confirmed] — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantech_Wireless, IEEE MA-L

Analyst note

Six independently-verifiable OUI assignments across two organization names and a documented product line (Vega handsets) place this vendor above the single-OUI-shell bar; treat as a substantive consolidated entry, not a bare registration.