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
- PTCLDeep Cut85points
- PteraDeep Cut85points
- PTV TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Public Service Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Pueblo of Pojoaque Internet ServiceDeep Cut85points
- Puerto Rico TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Pulaski-White Rural Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Pulse Energy BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Pulse FibreDeep Cut85points
- Pulse8Deep Cut85points
- PuntonetDeep Cut85points
- Pure BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Pure TelecomDeep Cut85points
- PureCommsDeep Cut85points
- PurefibreDeep Cut85points
- PureLinkDeep Cut85points
- Purple Cow InternetDeep Cut85points
- Puspita TelecomDeep Cut85points
- PVT NetworksDeep Cut85points
- PWR-netDeep Cut85points
- Pymatuning Independent TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe TelecomDeep Cut85points
- PŸURDeep Cut85points
- QCOLDeep Cut85points
- QiniqDeep Cut85points
- QleeDeep Cut85points
- QMX GLOBALDeep Cut85points
- QNetDeep Cut85points
- Quad State InternetDeep Cut85points
- QuadroDeep Cut85points
- QuadrupleplayDeep Cut85points
- Quality CablevisionDeep Cut85points
- QualityLife Intergovernmental AgencyDeep Cut85points
- QualitynetDeep Cut85points
- QualStar CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Quantum CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Quantum Fibre BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Quantum Internet & TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- QuantumNetDeep Cut85points
- QuantumShift CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Quartet ServiceDeep Cut85points
- QubeeDeep Cut85points
- Québec InternetDeep Cut85points
- QuerizonDeep Cut85points
- Questzones.NetDeep Cut85points
- QuicDeep Cut85points
- QuicklineDeep Cut85points
- Quickline AGDeep Cut85points
- QuickNetDeep Cut85points
- Quickrelay NetworksDeep 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.