Research In Motion (RIM) — 14 prefixes (MA-L)

"RIM" is the IEEE MA-L registrant name for the OUI blocks originally filed by Research In Motion Limited, the Waterloo, Ontario company that built the BlackBerry smartphone line and renamed itself BlackBerry Limited in July 2013. Fourteen distinct /24 prefixes carry the exact organization string "RIM," all registered to a Phillip Street address in Waterloo (postal code N2L 3W8), matching BlackBerry's well-documented corporate campus. Two other org strings sit on the same street — "RIM Testing Services" and "BlackBerry RTS" — but those are separate registry rows with their own prefix sets and are intentionally excluded here to avoid conflating three distinct IEEE registrations under one vendor page. Because RIM/BlackBerry is a globally recognized handset manufacturer with a well-documented product line (BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10 devices, the PlayBook tablet) and 14 separate OUI assignments — not a single bare registration — this entry clears the bar for a substantive vendor page rather than a shell. Legacy BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10 device services reached end-of-life on January 4, 2022, so seeing one of these prefixes today most likely flags a retired or inventoried legacy handset rather than an active device.

Registrant / IEEE assignment

exact org string "RIM" — 14 MA-L (/24) prefixes: 80:60:07, 70:D4:F2, 40:6A:AB, 14:74:11, 3C:74:37, 40:5F:BE, 2C:A8:35, E8:3E:B6, 30:7C:30, A0:6C:EC, A8:6A:6F, CC:55:AD, 30:69:4B, 00:23:7A [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Registry class

MA-L (24-bit) only; no MA-M (the IEEE MA-M registry) or MA-S (the IEEE MA-S registry) rows for the exact org string "RIM" [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry

Registered address

two textual variants across the 14 rows, both Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3W8 — "Phillip Street" with no house number (9 of 14 prefixes) and "295 Phillip Street" (5 of 14 prefixes) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Canonical company

Research In Motion Limited, renamed BlackBerry Limited in July 2013 [Confirmed] — https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-30/rim-changes-company-name-to-blackberry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Limited

Sibling registry entries (excluded from this page)

"RIM Testing Services" (2 prefixes, 440 Phillip St, N2L 5R9) and "BlackBerry RTS" (13 prefixes, various Phillip St addresses/postal codes) are separate exact-org-name rows on the same Waterloo campus and are NOT among vendor-rim's 14 "RIM" prefixes [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Device / product corroboration

BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry 10 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth radios, and the PlayBook tablet are documented Research In Motion / BlackBerry products at the company level [Confirmed]; note the web-angle spot checks (maclookup.app, blackberry.com support docs) verified this device context for the sibling "BlackBerry RTS" prefix set specifically, not for these exact 14 "RIM" prefixes, so treat the link as company-family corroboration rather than per-prefix-confirmed [Likely] — https://maclookup.app/vendors/blackberry-rts, https://helpblog.blackberry.com/en/2013/04/how-to-find-a-blackberry-10-smartphone-mac-address

Legacy status / EOL

legacy BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10/PlayBook services stopped functioning for calls, SMS, and data on January 4, 2022; BlackBerry's later Android-era devices were unaffected [Confirmed] — https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/support/devices/end-of-life, https://crackberry.com/blackberry-legacy-services-will-reach-end-life-january-4-2022-0

Dates

no IEEE registration/assignment date exists for any of the 14 prefixes — the IEEE MA-L registry has no date column and IEEE does not publish OUI assignment dates; none attributed here [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

IANA reference

not applicable to OUI/MAC vendor entries; left blank rather than inferred [Confirmed]

Substance assessment (abstain-on-shells check)

14 separate OUI assignments plus an unambiguous real-company identity (RIM is the pre-2013 legal name of BlackBerry Limited, a globally known handset maker) clears the single-OUI-shell bar — this is not a bare, unverifiable registration [Confirmed]