Recorded answers
8,187 recorded answers
How to approach it
Memory does the work here rather than deduction, so sweep the whole market instead of chasing a riddle. Any company that has ever sold a connection, whether a modem, a fibre line or a SIM card, deserves a place on your list. Begin with a couple of household giants to get moving, then deliberately leave them behind. Walk the alphabet in blocks, since the underlying register is enormous and sorted, and odd initials still hide real entries. Think of municipal utilities, member-owned cooperatives, campus research networks, wireless outfits covering a single valley, and carriers selling only mobile plans. Defunct dial-up brands and merged labels count as well, and every continent appears somewhere in the register. Keep writing until nothing else surfaces, because volume, not fame, is what pays.
Get a hint
Start from the names printed on advertising hoardings and monthly bills, then deliberately move away from them towards the rest of the market.
A little more
Much of the register consists of small regional outfits: member-owned cooperatives, municipal utilities and wireless providers covering a single county or valley.
One step further
The list spans every continent and runs alphabetically to the last letter, so niche local carriers, long-dead dial-up brands and mobile-only operators all qualify.
Reveal answers 8,187
- PC-QDeep Cut85points
- PCCWDeep Cut85points
- PCI BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- PCS Business SystemsDeep Cut85points
- PD FiberDeep Cut85points
- PDS WirelessDeep Cut85points
- PDTFast.netDeep Cut85points
- Peace CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Peace Region Internet SocietyDeep Cut85points
- Peace Valley TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Peak Broadband SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- Peak InternetDeep Cut85points
- Peak WiFiDeep Cut85points
- Pearl River Valley CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- PearlComm FiberDeep Cut85points
- Peerless NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Peetz Cooperative TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Pegasus NetworksDeep Cut85points
- PEI MonitoringDeep Cut85points
- Pembroke TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Pembroke Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Pemiscot Dunklin FiberDeep Cut85points
- PEMTELDeep Cut85points
- Penasco Valley Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Pend Oreille Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Pend Oreille Valley NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Pendleton FiberDeep Cut85points
- Peninsula Fiber NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Peninsula TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Penki kontinentaiDeep Cut85points
- PennInternetDeep Cut85points
- Pennsylvania TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- PennWispDeep Cut85points
- Penny BredbandDeep Cut85points
- PennytelDeep Cut85points
- Penta OnlineDeep Cut85points
- PentanetDeep Cut85points
- PenTeleDataDeep Cut85points
- People TelecomDeep Cut85points
- People's TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- PeoplePCDeep Cut85points
- Peoples Integrated AllianceDeep Cut85points
- Peoples Mutual Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Peoples Rural TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Peoples ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Peoples TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Peoples TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Peoples Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Peoples Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- PeoplesNet WirelessDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Payout follows agreement, so the more entrants who type the same name, the smaller the reward becomes. A lone novelty entry, The World (ISP), collected the full 100 points, while the bulk of accepted answers settled at 85 and a thinner 60-point band caught names that plenty of players reached for at once. Everything in that middle tier, from 012 Smile and 019 Mobile to 1&1, 4fast.net and 123NET, sat on the record yet was shared by comparatively few people, which is why it paid close to the ceiling. Obscurity therefore beats fame: household brands that anyone can type within seconds bunch together near the bottom, whereas a carrier only a few hundred people could recall still earns almost full marks. Digit-led labels are unusually productive here, since whole stretches of the register are alphabetised that way and hardly anybody thinks to try them. Patient recall across the entire alphabet, instead of the first famous provider that springs to mind, separates the top band from the rest.