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
- Southwest Minnesota Broadband ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Southwest Oklahoma Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Southwest Texas CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Southwestern Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Southwestern WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Sovam TeleportDeep Cut85points
- Space WalkerDeep Cut85points
- SpacenetDeep Cut85points
- Spacenet AGDeep Cut85points
- SpadhausenDeep Cut85points
- Spanish Fork Community NetworkDeep Cut85points
- SparkDeep Cut85points
- Spark FiberDeep Cut85points
- Spark OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Spark SystemsDeep Cut85points
- SpeakeasyDeep Cut85points
- SpeakUpDeep Cut85points
- SpectraDeep Cut85points
- Spectra TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- SpectrAirDeep Cut85points
- SpectranetDeep Cut85points
- SpectrotelDeep Cut85points
- Spectrum Net BulgariaDeep Cut85points
- Spectrum Telecom GroupDeep Cut85points
- Speed LinksDeep Cut85points
- Speed NetDeep Cut85points
- Speed of Light BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Speed Tech OnlineDeep Cut85points
- SpeedcastDeep Cut85points
- SpeedConnectDeep Cut85points
- SpeediaDeep Cut85points
- Speednet ScotlandDeep Cut85points
- SpeedsurfDeep Cut85points
- SpeedwavzDeep Cut85points
- SpeedWay InternetDeep Cut85points
- SpeedyQuick NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Spencer Municipal UtilitiesDeep Cut85points
- Spider NetworksDeep Cut85points
- SpidernetDeep Cut85points
- SpinNetDeep Cut85points
- SpinTelDeep Cut85points
- SpinwayDeep Cut85points
- Spirit TelecomDeep Cut85points
- SpitfireDeep Cut85points
- SPITwSPOTSDeep Cut85points
- Spliced NetworksDeep Cut85points
- SplitrockDeep Cut85points
- SpliusDeep Cut85points
- SPM TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Spot-netDeep 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.