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
- Fulton Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Fundamental ConsultingDeep Cut85points
- Fundy CableDeep Cut85points
- FunetDeep Cut85points
- Further ReachDeep Cut85points
- Fuse InternetDeep Cut85points
- Fuse TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Fusion ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Fusion Fibre GroupDeep Cut85points
- Fusion NetDeep Cut85points
- Fusion NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Future BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Future Connected FibreDeep Cut85points
- Future ExpressDeep Cut85points
- Future Link CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Future Link ITDeep Cut85points
- FutureFibreDeep Cut85points
- FybercomDeep Cut85points
- G.NetworkDeep Cut85points
- G&B Networks SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- G12 CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- G3 CommsDeep Cut85points
- G3 TelecomDeep Cut85points
- G4 TelecomDeep Cut85points
- G5 InternetDeep Cut85points
- GahannaNetDeep Cut85points
- Gaibandha OnlineDeep Cut85points
- GalacticaDeep Cut85points
- Galaxy Broadband CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Galaxy Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Galaxy NetDeep Cut85points
- Galiano Association for Internet AccessDeep Cut85points
- Gallagher & Co ConsultantsDeep Cut85points
- Gallatin River CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Gallatin Wireless InternetDeep Cut85points
- Galloway BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- GAM Technical ServicesDeep Cut85points
- GameWith HikariDeep Cut85points
- Gamewood Technology GroupDeep Cut85points
- GammaDeep Cut85points
- GamtelDeep Cut85points
- Ganado Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Garden Valley Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Gardonville Cooperative Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
- GARRDeep Cut85points
- Gars TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Gateway FiberDeep Cut85points
- Gateway Online AccessDeep Cut85points
- Gateway.netDeep Cut85points
- Gazon CommunicationsDeep 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.