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
- Tajri CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- TakamolDeep Cut85points
- Takaoka Cable NetworkDeep Cut85points
- TalDeep Cut85points
- Talk AmericaDeep Cut85points
- Talk HomeDeep Cut85points
- Talk InternetDeep Cut85points
- Talk StraightDeep Cut85points
- Talkie CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- TalkTechDeep Cut85points
- Tallahatchie Valley Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Talmuri Computer SystemDeep Cut85points
- Taloga CableDeep Cut85points
- TaluslinkDeep Cut85points
- TAMDeep Cut85points
- Tama Cable NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Tama TVDeep Cut85points
- TAMCO Technologies of CanadaDeep Cut85points
- Tampa Bay FiberDeep Cut85points
- TampnetDeep Cut85points
- TANetDeep Cut85points
- Tangail OnlineDeep Cut85points
- TangerineDeep Cut85points
- TangoDeep Cut85points
- TaosNetDeep Cut85points
- Taranga Seba TelecomDeep Cut85points
- TARENADeep Cut85points
- Targo CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- TarrDeep Cut85points
- TashiCellDeep Cut85points
- Tata CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Tata Play FiberDeep Cut85points
- Tata TeleservicesDeep Cut85points
- TattelecomDeep Cut85points
- Tatum Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Taunton Municipal Lighting PlantDeep Cut85points
- Taylor Electric CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Taylor Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- TAYO TelecomDeep Cut85points
- TbaytelDeep Cut85points
- TBCDeep Cut85points
- TbroadDeep Cut85points
- TC WirelessDeep Cut85points
- TC3 TelecomDeep Cut85points
- TCA CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- TCCDeep Cut85points
- TCC TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- TCLPfiberDeep Cut85points
- TCTDeep Cut85points
- TDCDeep 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.