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
- TV OyamaDeep Cut85points
- TV ReyDeep Cut85points
- TV TsuyamaDeep Cut85points
- TVCDeep Cut85points
- TVI FiberDeep Cut85points
- TVNDeep Cut85points
- TVTELDeep Cut85points
- TW TelecomDeep Cut85points
- TWARENDeep Cut85points
- TWICSDeep Cut85points
- Twilight TechDeep Cut85points
- Twin Island CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Twin Lakes TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Twin Valley TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Twin Valley-Ulen Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Twin WirelessDeep Cut85points
- TWN CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Two Rock LANDeep Cut85points
- Two Tin CansDeep Cut85points
- TwoobiiDeep Cut85points
- TWR CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- TXOL InternetDeep Cut85points
- TXU CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- TyfonDeep Cut85points
- Tyson CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- U MobileDeep Cut85points
- U-NetDeep Cut85points
- U-Turn TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- U9 MyanmarDeep Cut85points
- UARNetDeep Cut85points
- UASATDeep Cut85points
- UBBDeep Cut85points
- Uber GroupDeep Cut85points
- Uber WirelessDeep Cut85points
- UbiFiDeep Cut85points
- UbuntuNet AllianceDeep Cut85points
- UC2BDeep Cut85points
- UcomDeep Cut85points
- Ueda Cable VisionDeep Cut85points
- Uenohara Broadband CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- UfanetDeep Cut85points
- Uganda TelecomDeep Cut85points
- UIHDeep Cut85points
- UK OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Ukiah WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Ukrainian New TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- UkrtelecomDeep Cut85points
- Ulink Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Ultimate Internet AccessDeep Cut85points
- Ultrafast WirelessDeep 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.