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
- Farmers Telephone Company - ColoradoDeep Cut85points
- Farmers Telephone Company-BataviaDeep Cut85points
- Farmers Telephone Company-EssexDeep Cut85points
- Farmers Telephone Company-RicevilleDeep Cut85points
- FarmsideDeep Cut85points
- Faro InternetDeep Cut85points
- Faroese TelecomDeep Cut85points
- FAST (Israel)Deep Cut85points
- Fast ICT & Net SolutionDeep Cut85points
- Fast OneDeep Cut85points
- Fast WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Fast-Air InternetDeep Cut85points
- FastcomDeep Cut85points
- Fastel MediaDeep Cut85points
- Faster BritainDeep Cut85points
- Faster Cajun NetworksDeep Cut85points
- FastInternet.nzDeep Cut85points
- Fastlane InternetDeep Cut85points
- FastlaneHDDeep Cut85points
- Fastlink CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Fastlink IraqDeep Cut85points
- FastNetDeep Cut85points
- Fastr BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- FastspeedDeep Cut85points
- FasttelcoDeep Cut85points
- FastTrack CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- FastwayDeep Cut85points
- FastwebDeep Cut85points
- FastwyreDeep Cut85points
- FatbeamDeep Cut85points
- Fatema Tech SolutionDeep Cut85points
- Fayetteville Public UtilitiesDeep Cut85points
- FCCNDeep Cut85points
- FEC CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Federated Rural Electric AssociationDeep Cut85points
- Federated Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Felton Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Feni Easy NetDeep Cut85points
- Fenton Cooperative Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- FFG ConnectionDeep Cut85points
- FGL TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Fiber NanotechDeep Cut85points
- Fiber WaveDeep Cut85points
- FibercityDeep Cut85points
- FiberCommDeep Cut85points
- FiberConnectDeep Cut85points
- FibercorpDeep Cut85points
- Fibercreek NetworksDeep Cut85points
- FiberflyDeep Cut85points
- FiberHawkDeep 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.