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
- CMC TelecomDeep Cut85points
- CMETDeep Cut85points
- CML Telephone Cooperative AssociationDeep Cut85points
- CmobileDeep Cut85points
- CMS InternetDeep Cut85points
- CMW WirelessDeep Cut85points
- CNCiDeep Cut85points
- Cnet BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- CNSNextDeep Cut85points
- CNTDeep Cut85points
- Co-Mo ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Coalfields TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Coast CableDeep Cut85points
- Coast CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Coast to Coast NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Coastal BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Coastal Electric Membership CorporationDeep Cut85points
- Coastal IntegrationDeep Cut85points
- Coastal UtilitiesDeep Cut85points
- CoastConnectDeep Cut85points
- Coba SystemsDeep Cut85points
- Cobalt RidgeDeep Cut85points
- CobranetDeep Cut85points
- Cobridge CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Cochrane Cooperative TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Cochrane Telecom Services of the Town of CochraneDeep Cut85points
- Codex StreamingDeep Cut85points
- CoditelDeep Cut85points
- CoextroDeep Cut85points
- CogentDeep Cut85points
- CogetelDeep Cut85points
- Cohere CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Colba.NetDeep Cut85points
- Coleman County Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Collins CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Colo TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Colorado Central TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Colorado Community FiberDeep Cut85points
- Colorado Valley CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Colosseum OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Colrain BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- ColtDeep Cut85points
- ColtontelDeep Cut85points
- Columbia County Broadband UtilityDeep Cut85points
- Columbia FiberDeep Cut85points
- Columbia iConnectDeep Cut85points
- Columbia WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Columbine Telecom CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Columbus Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Com HemDeep 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.