Vodafone Italia holds ten MA-L (24-bit OUI) blocks in the IEEE registry, split across the operator's current legal name and two predecessor entities. Seven blocks are registered to "Vodafone Italia S.p.A." at Via Lorenteggio 240, Milan; the remaining three carry the older Omnitel branding — two to "Vodafone Omnitel N.V." and one to "Vodafone Omnitel B.V.," both at the Via Jervis 13 address in Ivrea (Turin), reflecting the company's origin as Omnitel in 1994 before the Vodafone rebrand following Vodafone Group's 2000 Mannesmann acquisition. These OUIs identify consumer customer-premises equipment (CPE): the "Vodafone Station" family of broadband gateways for ADSL, VDSL, FTTC, and FTTH/fiber, now headed by the Wi-Fi 7 "Modem Seven." The hardware itself is built by third-party ODMs (historically Huawei and ZTE for mobile, and Sercomm, Technicolor, and Vantiva for home gateways), so the OUI marks Vodafone Italia as the commissioning and distributing entity rather than the OEM. A corporate caveat matters for any current data: Swisscom acquired Vodafone Italia (deal completed 31 December 2024) and merged it into Fastweb S.p.A. effective 1 January 2026, so the registrant legal entity has ceased — the Vodafone brand continues in Italy under a transitional commercial licence, and the IEEE blocks remain under the historical Vodafone Italia / Omnitel names. As with all OUI data, the per-prefix "registration dates" shown by third-party lookup tools are database artifacts: IEEE publishes no assignment dates.
- IEEE assignment
- 10 prefixes → 7 to "Vodafone Italia S.p.A." (Milan), 2 to "Vodafone Omnitel N.V." and 1 to "Vodafone Omnitel B.V." (Ivrea/Turin) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (enrichment/registries/oui.csv)
- Registry / block size
- MA-L (24-bit OUI), 10 blocks (~16.7M addresses each) [Confirmed] — IEEE oui.csv. NOTE: IEEE's public OUI data publishes NO assignment/registration date (columns are only Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address); third-party "date registered" values (e.g. E4:8F:34 = 2017-09-22, 08:16:05 = 2021-07-02 on maclookup.app) are database artifacts, not IEEE facts.
- HQ / country
- Via Lorenteggio 240, Milan, IT 20147 (current registrant address); predecessor Omnitel blocks at Via Guglielmo Jervis 13, 10015 Ivrea, Turin, IT [Confirmed] — IEEE oui.csv
- Company status
- legal entity ceased — Vodafone Italia S.p.A. merged into Fastweb S.p.A. effective 1 Jan 2026 (Swisscom acquisition completed 31 Dec 2024); Vodafone brand continues in Italy under a 5-year commercial licence [Confirmed] — Swisscom, Fastweb/Vodafone press, Wikipedia
- Device types
- consumer broadband CPE — "Vodafone Station" gateways (ADSL/VDSL/FTTC/FTTH), current "Modem Seven" (Wi-Fi 7, integrated ONT); also mobile broadband devices (USB modems, MiFi) [Likely] — vodafone.it, vantiva.com, home-assistant.io
- OEM note
- gateway hardware built by third-party ODMs (Sercomm, Technicolor, Vantiva; Huawei/ZTE for mobile); OUI registered to Vodafone Italia as the commissioning/distributing entity, not the manufacturer [Likely] — vantiva.com, single-source vendor reporting
- Verified sample prefixes (MA-L)
- Vodafone Italia S.p.A. — 60:1B:52, 80:16:05, 14:14:59, 74:36:6D, BC:15:AC, 08:16:05, E4:8F:34; Vodafone Omnitel N.V. — 00:24:89, 90:35:6E; Vodafone Omnitel B.V. — 64:59:F8 [Confirmed] — IEEE oui.csv (cross-confirmed by udger.com, netify.ai, maclookup.app)
- MA-M / MA-S
- none — no MA-M (mam.csv) or MA-S (oui36.csv) blocks for any Vodafone Italia / Omnitel variant [Confirmed] — IEEE registries
- Predecessor entities
- "Vodafone Omnitel N.V." and "Vodafone Omnitel B.V." are the former Omnitel brand names used before the full Vodafone rebrand in Italy; same operator lineage [Confirmed] — IEEE oui.csv, Wikipedia
- Security note
- no security incident tied directly to Vodafone Italia OUI-registered MACs or CPE firmware. The 2022 Vodafone Italia breach was via a compromised reseller (FourB S.p.A.) exposing subscriber PII — an organisational/partner breach, not a router flaw. CVE-2019-3411/CVE-2019-3412 affected the Vodafone R218 (ZTE MF920) mobile router used by Vodafone UK/global, not specifically a Vodafone Italia CPE. [Likely] — bleepingcomputer.com, Vodafone UK forum, upguard.com
- Analyst note
- a Vodafone Italia / Omnitel OUI on a globally-administered address reliably identifies operator-supplied CPE (or older mobile devices). Treat the three Omnitel-named blocks as the same operator. Do not display third-party per-prefix dates as IEEE registration dates.