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
- Pineville Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Pinged NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Pink ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Pinnacle CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Pinnacles TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Pinon Mesa NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Pinpoint CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- PioneerDeep Cut85points
- Pioneer BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Pioneer CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Pioneer ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Pioneer Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Pioneer WirelessDeep Cut85points
- PIONIERDeep Cut85points
- Pipernet CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- PipexDeep Cut85points
- PishgamanDeep Cut85points
- PivotelDeep Cut85points
- Plainfield BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Plains BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Plains Cooperative Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
- Plains InternetDeep Cut85points
- Plainview Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Planet ADeep Cut85points
- Planet ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Planet InternetDeep Cut85points
- Planet IT SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- PlaNet LaosDeep Cut85points
- Planet NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Planet OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Planet TunisieDeep Cut85points
- PlanetelDeep Cut85points
- Plant Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Planters Rural Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- PlateauDeep Cut85points
- PlatformityDeep Cut85points
- Platinum ConnectDeep Cut85points
- PlayDeep Cut85points
- Plenum GroupDeep Cut85points
- Plexus CloudDeep Cut85points
- PlugarDeep Cut85points
- Plumas Sierra TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- PlusDeep Cut85points
- Plusnet GmbHDeep Cut85points
- PLWCDeep Cut85points
- PME TÉLÉCOMDeep Cut85points
- PNCCDeep Cut85points
- Poa InternetDeep Cut85points
- Pocahontas Fiber NetworkDeep Cut85points
- PocketiNet CommunicationsDeep 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.