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
- Team Telecom ArmeniaDeep Cut85points
- TeamPharrDeep Cut85points
- TECDeep Cut85points
- TEC FiberDeep Cut85points
- Tech ComDeep Cut85points
- Tech Futures InteractiveDeep Cut85points
- Tech North SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- TechmindsDeep Cut85points
- Technique DataDeep Cut85points
- Techno Asia InfotechDeep Cut85points
- Technocore BangladeshDeep Cut85points
- TechnologicalDeep Cut85points
- Technologie MacNuaDeep Cut85points
- Technology & Virus ClinicDeep Cut85points
- Technosoft BangladeshDeep Cut85points
- TechseedsDeep Cut85points
- TechsolveDeep Cut85points
- TechXpressDeep Cut85points
- TecInfoDeep Cut85points
- TeesDeep Cut85points
- Tekify Fiber & WirelessDeep Cut85points
- TekSavvyDeep Cut85points
- TekWavDeep Cut85points
- Tel-Star CablevisionDeep Cut85points
- TelairDeep Cut85points
- TelAlaskaDeep Cut85points
- TelboDeep Cut85points
- TelBruDeep Cut85points
- TelcanDeep Cut85points
- TelcomDeep Cut85points
- Telcom SomaliaDeep Cut85points
- TelconetDeep Cut85points
- TeldafaxDeep Cut85points
- Tele FinlandDeep Cut85points
- Tele Imagen CodificadaDeep Cut85points
- Tele-Communications Inc.Deep Cut85points
- Tele-Media SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- Tele-PageDeep Cut85points
- Télé-Systèmes M.J.Deep Cut85points
- Tele2Deep Cut85points
- Tele2 RussiaDeep Cut85points
- Tele2 UKDeep Cut85points
- Telebangla CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- TélébecDeep Cut85points
- TeleBermuda InternationalDeep Cut85points
- TelebrásDeep Cut85points
- TelebucaramangaDeep Cut85points
- TelecableDeep Cut85points
- Telecable Costa RicaDeep Cut85points
- Telecable DominicanoDeep 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.