Krillion 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
- Saco River Telephone & Telegraph CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Sacred Heart Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Sacred Wind CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Saddleback CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- SafaricomDeep Cut85points
- SafarifoneDeep Cut85points
- Safe Harbour InformaticsDeep Cut85points
- Safelink InternetDeep Cut85points
- Safritel CanadaDeep Cut85points
- Saga City VisionDeep Cut85points
- Saga Shimbun InternetDeep Cut85points
- Sahara NetDeep Cut85points
- SaicomDeep Cut85points
- Saiful Islam Trade LinkDeep Cut85points
- Sail InternetDeep Cut85points
- Saima TelecomDeep Cut85points
- SainetDeep Cut85points
- Sainsbury's BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Saku Cable TVDeep Cut85points
- SalamDeep Cut85points
- Salem Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Salina-Spavinaw Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Salish NetworksDeep Cut85points
- SalsgiverDeep Cut85points
- SaltDeep Cut85points
- SaltsyncDeep Cut85points
- Saluda Mountain Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Salzburg AGDeep Cut85points
- SAM OnlineDeep Cut85points
- SamartDeep Cut85points
- Samden TechDeep Cut85points
- Samoa TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Samsung UnitelDeep Cut85points
- San Bruno Municipal Cable TVDeep Cut85points
- San Carlos Apache Telecommunications UtilityDeep Cut85points
- San Diego BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- San Isabel TelecomDeep Cut85points
- San Juan BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- San Juan CableDeep Cut85points
- San'in Cable VisionDeep Cut85points
- Sand Creek Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Sandersville FiberlinkDeep Cut85points
- Sandhill ConNEXTionsDeep Cut85points
- Sandhill Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Sandhills WirelessDeep Cut85points
- SandPrairie WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Sandwich Isles CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- SandyNetDeep Cut85points
- SANETDeep Cut85points
- SANNETDeep 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.