VTech Telecommunications Ltd. — 5 prefixes (MA-L)

A MAC address beginning with 00:12:2A, C4:68:D0, 14:AE:DB, A4:97:5C, or 1C:8E:E6 belongs to VTech Telecommunications Ltd., a Hong Kong-registered unit of VTech Holdings Limited whose gear typically shows up as DECT cordless home phones, Wi-Fi baby monitors, and small-business analog/IP phones.

Five MA-L blocks carry this org name in the IEEE registry. Four share an identical Hong Kong address (23/F, Tai Ping Industrial Centre, Block 1) under "VTech Telecommunications Ltd." The fifth, 1C:8E:E6, is registered under a distinct legal-form string, "VTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED," at a different address in Dong Guan, China — flagged as a variant rather than silently merged into the other four.

Company substance goes beyond a bare registration: the parent, VTech Holdings Limited, is an HKEX-listed public company, and the vendor's own telecommunications-products site documents the DECT phone and baby-monitor lines that third-party MAC-lookup aggregators consistently attribute to these OUIs.

This entry is likely a sibling of the already-finalized vendor-vtech (VTech Communications Limited, 54:70:68), which shares the same Hong Kong registry address and parent company. That entry's documented history — the 2015 Learning Lodge breach and the 2018 FTC COPPA settlement — was cloud/server-side, not device firmware, and is not independently re-verified here.

No CVEs were confirmed against core VTech-branded telephony or monitor hardware. The only CVEs found under the broader "Vtech" vendor umbrella cover Bezeq-OEM gateway firmware (e.g. CVE-2022-47848) built for an Israeli telco under contract — a distinct product line, not the consumer/business phones these OUIs identify.

IEEE assignment

5 prefixes → VTech Telecommunications Ltd. / VTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry lines 1660, 9724, 9725, 17524, 15498

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI) × 5; no MA-M or MA-S entries found for this org name [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry

HQ / country

23/F, Tai Ping Industrial Centre, Block 1, Hong Kong (4 of 5 blocks); 1C:8E:E6 registered to a distinct address in Dong Guan, China [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Company status

active, per parent VTech Holdings Limited (HKEX-listed) [Likely] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTech

Device types

DECT cordless phones, Wi-Fi baby monitors, small-business analog/IP phones [Likely] — https://www.vtech.com/en/business/telecommunication-products/, https://aucomms.vtech.com/home

Verified prefixes

00:12:2A, C4:68:D0, 14:AE:DB, A4:97:5C, 1C:8E:E6 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Registration dates

Unknown / not applicable — IEEE's the IEEE MA-L registry publishes no date field for MA-L assignments [Confirmed]

CVE status

no confirmed CVEs for VTech-branded core telephony/monitor devices; unrelated Bezeq-OEM gateway firmware CVEs (e.g. CVE-2022-47848) exist under the "Vtech" vendor umbrella

[Unknown] — https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/19984/Vtech.html, https://cvefeed.io/vuln/product/9575/bezeqvtech_iad604-il_firmware/

Corporate security history

parent-level 2015 Learning Lodge breach and 2018 FTC COPPA settlement (server-side, not device firmware) already documented on sibling entry vendor-vtech; not independently re-verified in this pass [Likely] — /mac/vendor/vtech/

Related vendors

VTech Communications Limited (54:70:68, likely sibling, already DONE as vendor-vtech), VTech Electronics Ltd. (04:07:2E), VTech Technology Corp. (00:09:08) — distinct registrations, not merged into this entry [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry