TECNO MOBILE LIMITED — 54 prefixes (MA-L)

TECNO MOBILE LIMITED holds 54 IEEE MA-L (24-bit OUI) blocks, all registered to a single Hong Kong address — Rooms 05-15, 13A/F., South Tower, World Finance Centre, Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. Tecno is a smartphone brand of Transsion Holdings, the Shenzhen-based, publicly listed manufacturer founded in 2006 that built its business around budget-to-mid-tier Android handsets for emerging markets. Tecno's hardware — the SPARK and POVA smartphone lines, plus tablets, routers, and accessories — sells predominantly across sub-Saharan Africa (where Tecno is a market leader), South Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, with a footprint in 60+ countries. Consolidating these 54 prefixes into one vendor entry is far more useful than minting near-identical per-prefix pages. Two caveats matter for OUI work. First, MAC randomization: modern Tecno Android devices (Android 10+) default to randomized "private" Wi-Fi addresses on new/public networks, so a Tecno OUI reliably identifies genuine Tecno hardware but its absence does not mean "not Tecno," and OUI alone is unreliable for inventory or MAC-based access control. Second, supply-chain history: in 2020, security researchers documented Triada/xHelper malware pre-installed on Tecno W2 budget units shipped to several African markets — attributed to a compromised third-party supplier rather than ongoing company practice, but a reason to apply standard mobile-device scrutiny plus supply-chain awareness to older budget-tier Tecno devices on managed networks. A data-quality note: a separate registrant, SHENZHEN TECNO TECHNOLOGY (OUI C4:D4:D0, Shenzhen, China), is a distinct legal entity and should not be conflated with TECNO MOBILE LIMITED.

IEEE assignment

54 prefixes → TECNO MOBILE LIMITED, registered Hong Kong, HK [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (enrichment/registries/oui.csv); corroborated by maclookup.app vendor page

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); holds 54 IEEE prefixes [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries/oui.csv (prefix count is a current registry snapshot and drifts as new blocks register); company holds NO MA-M (mam.csv) or MA-S (oui36.csv) entries [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries/mam.csv, enrichment/registries/oui36.csv. NOTE: IEEE's public OUI data publishes NO assignment/registration date (oui.csv columns are only Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address); any "date registered" on third-party tools is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact. maclookup.app shows an artifact date range of 2016-03-04 to 2025-12-16 across the 54 blocks — third-party, not IEEE-sourced. [Confirmed artifact range] — maclookup.app/vendors/tecno-mobile-limited

HQ / country

Rooms 05-15, 13A/F., South Tower, World Finance Centre, Harbour City, 17 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, HK 999077 (registry address) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (enrichment/registries/oui.csv)

Parent company

Transsion Holdings (publicly listed; HQ Shenzhen, China; Tecno registered in Hong Kong) [Confirmed] — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecno_Mobile

Founded

2006 [Confirmed] — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecno_Mobile

Company status

active [Confirmed] — tecno-mobile.com

Device types

smartphones (primary — SPARK, POVA series), tablets, laptops, routers, accessories; consumer-grade Android devices targeting emerging markets [Confirmed] — tecno-mobile.com, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecno_Mobile

Primary markets

sub-Saharan Africa (market leader — ~23.55% Nigeria share, Q1 2025), South Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe; present in 60+ countries [Confirmed market leadership; single-source share figure] — itnewsafrica.com (Tecno press office), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecno_Mobile

Verified sample prefixes (all MA-L, TECNO MOBILE LIMITED)

4C:A3:A7, 58:35:6B, 78:3A:6C, 4C:E1:9E, 70:9F:A9 [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries/oui.csv

Special note (MAC randomization)

modern Tecno Android devices (Android 10+) default to randomized "private" Wi-Fi addresses on public/new networks; OUI-based identification is unreliable for randomized addresses (locally-administered bit set) [Likely] — netify.ai/resources/macs/brands/tecno-mobile (Android-platform default; single-source for Tecno specifically)

Security context

in 2020, Upstream/Secure-D documented Triada/xHelper malware pre-installed on ~53,000 Tecno W2 units shipped to Ethiopia, Ghana, Cameroon, and South Africa; the malware silently subscribed users to paid services and Secure-D blocked ~844,000 related transactions (Mar–Dec 2019). Google and Transsion attributed it to a compromised third-party supply-chain vendor; no other Transsion/Tecno models were confirmed affected. [Confirmed] — edition.cnn.com/2020/08/26/tech/tecno-malware-africa, upstreamsystems.com press release, buzzfeednews.com

Related entity (data trap)

SHENZHEN TECNO TECHNOLOGY holds one MA-L prefix (C4:D4:D0, Shenzhen, CN) — a distinct legal entity, NOT the same registrant as TECNO MOBILE LIMITED (different address, different country of record) [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries/oui.csv

Analyst note

a Tecno OUI on a globally-administered address identifies genuine Tecno hardware; its absence doesn't mean "not Tecno" due to Android MAC randomization. Treat unrecognized Tecno MACs with standard mobile-device scrutiny, plus supply-chain awareness for budget/older W2-era models. Don't rely on OUI alone for inventory or MAC-based access control.