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
- PODADeep Cut85points
- PogoZoneDeep Cut85points
- Point BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Point to Point BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Pointe WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Poka LambroDeep Cut85points
- Polar CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Ponca City Utility AuthorityDeep Cut85points
- Ponderosa EdgeDeep Cut85points
- Ponderosa TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Pop TelecomDeep Cut85points
- POPP CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- PoptelDeep Cut85points
- Port Byron Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Port NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Portal Information NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Portal UaiDeep Cut85points
- Portative TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- POST LuxembourgDeep Cut85points
- Post Office BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- PosteMobileDeep Cut85points
- Potlatch Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Pottawatomie TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Power BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- PowerBill Utility Billing SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- POWERGRIDDeep Cut85points
- Powerline InternetDeep Cut85points
- PowerNet GlobalDeep Cut85points
- PowerTechDeep Cut85points
- Powertel/MemphisDeep Cut85points
- POYNT360Deep Cut85points
- PPCTVDeep Cut85points
- PR Wi-FiDeep Cut85points
- PR-TelecomDeep Cut85points
- PR1MA CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- PradeshtaDeep Cut85points
- Prairie Crocus Rural InternetDeep Cut85points
- Prairie Grove Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Prairie Hills WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Prairie OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Prairie Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Prairieburg TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- PrairieWaveDeep Cut85points
- Pre-Lock Security ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Prefix NetDeep Cut85points
- Premier BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Premier CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Premier SatelliteDeep Cut85points
- Premium Choice BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Premium ConnectivityDeep 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.