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
- Sonke TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Sooner WirelessDeep Cut85points
- SorgeniaDeep Cut85points
- Sorob ITDeep Cut85points
- SOS CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- SoshDeep Cut85points
- SoulDeep Cut85points
- Source CableDeep Cut85points
- South Arkansas TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- South Bangla OnlineDeep Cut85points
- South Bay InternetDeep Cut85points
- South Canaan TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- South Central CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- South Central ConnectDeep Cut85points
- South Central Indiana Rural Electric MembershipDeep Cut85points
- South Central Rural TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- South East WirelessDeep Cut85points
- South Island CableDeep Cut85points
- South Park TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- South Plains Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- South SlopeDeep Cut85points
- South Valley InternetDeep Cut85points
- Southeast Mississippi Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Southeast MN WIFIDeep Cut85points
- Southeast Nebraska CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Southeast TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Southeast Telephone Company of WisconsinDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern INDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern Indiana REMCDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern Indiana Rural Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Southern BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Southern Cable NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Southern California TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Southern California Tribal Digital VillageDeep Cut85points
- Southern Coastal CableDeep Cut85points
- Southern Cross TelcoDeep Cut85points
- Southern Fiber WorxDeep Cut85points
- Southern InternetDeep Cut85points
- Southern Kansas Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Southern Michigan InternetDeep Cut85points
- Southern Montana TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Southern Ohio Communication ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Southern PhoneDeep Cut85points
- Southern Plains CableDeep Cut85points
- Southern Telecommunications CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Southern Tier WirelessDeep Cut85points
- SouthNet - A Tombigbee ElectricDeep Cut85points
- Southtel AcquisitionDeep Cut85points
- SouthWAN InternetDeep Cut85points
- Southwest Arkansas Telephone CooperativeDeep 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.