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
- BroadwingDeep Cut85points
- Brooke TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Brooklyn FiberDeep Cut85points
- Brooklyn Mutual Telecommunications CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- BrooksNetDeep Cut85points
- Bros BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Brosis CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Brother's ICT ConnectivityDeep Cut85points
- Brothers OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Brothers Online BDDeep Cut85points
- Brown Dog NetworksDeep Cut85points
- BrskDeep Cut85points
- BrSuperDeep Cut85points
- Bruce Street TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Bruce TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Bruce TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- BrutéléDeep Cut85points
- Bryan Municipal UtilitiesDeep Cut85points
- BryteDeep Cut85points
- BT EnìaDeep Cut85points
- BTC BahamasDeep Cut85points
- BTC BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- BTC CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- BTCLDeep Cut85points
- BTEL CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- BTVDeep Cut85points
- BTWIDeep Cut85points
- BTX FiberDeep Cut85points
- Buckeye BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Buckland TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Buckminster BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Buddy BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Buddy TelcoDeep Cut85points
- Budget ThuisDeep Cut85points
- Buffalo FiberDeep Cut85points
- Buffalo Valley Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Bug Tussel WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Buggs Island Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- BulldogDeep Cut85points
- Bullet Security CamerasDeep Cut85points
- Bullitt CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Bulloch Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- BullsEye TelecomDeep Cut85points
- BulsatcomDeep Cut85points
- Bungo-ono City Cable TVDeep Cut85points
- BurcoDeep Cut85points
- Burgeo Broadcasting SystemDeep Cut85points
- Burke's Garden TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Burlington TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Burloak NetworksDeep 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.