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Leading Wireless Carriers Brands in AI Search

Benchmarks, the brands AI recommends, and the sources grounding those answers across 4 AI models.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Verizon leads AI search visibility in Wireless Carriers with a Goodie visibility score of 69.2, ahead of T-Mobile (68.3) and AT&T (59.7). The median score across the 19 ranked brands is 29.9, and a score above 29.9 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is lesnumeriques.com at 7.8% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 30.5%.

33k prompts · 2.4m AI answers · 11m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Wireless Carriers
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
29.9
Half of the 19 ranked wireless carriers brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Score to enter the top 10
29.9
Clearing 29.9 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 0.0 points above the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
7.2
A typical answer names seven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Citation mix
  • UGC 0%
  • Editorial 2%
  • Reference 4%
  • Retail 1%
  • Other 93%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding wireless carriers answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
30.5%
Owned content is in line with the index-wide average here.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
57/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
33k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.4m
216k in October · ▼ 14.3% vs September
Citations parsed
11m
1m in October · ▲ 13.4% vs September
Brands observed
587
19 ranked here · 568 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Wireless Carriers, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentMarketsTop cited source
01Verizon
69.2
10.7%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 2.05113/13tomsguide.com
02T-Mobile
68.3
10.6%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.76013/13tomsguide.com
03AT&T
59.7
9.3%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.14513/13tomsguide.com
04Vodafone
44.2
6.9%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 1.15210/13insights.opensignal.com
05O2
35.1
5.4%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 1.5495/13uswitch.com
06Mint Mobile
34.0
5.3%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.46013/13tomsguide.com
07Google Fi
31.8
4.9%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 0.56412/13tomsguide.com
08US Mobile
31.7
4.9%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 0.6609/13tomsguide.com
09du
31.4
4.9%AI ModeChatGPTCopilot▼ 1.5706/13ookla.com
10Bharti Airtel
29.9
4.6%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 0.3498/13wikipedia.org
19 ranked · visibility is a six-month average · worldwide ranking requires presence in at least 5 of 13 marketsTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Wireless Carriers
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01lesnumeriques.com
7.8%
—
02sina.com.cn
7.6%
—
03handy.rocks
6.7%
—
04amazon.com
6.4%
—
05innovazione.gov.it
5.8%
—
06jechange.fr
5.6%
—
07minsoku.net
5.0%
—
08arcep.fr
4.9%
▲ 15.4
09sina.cn
4.6%
—
10forbesmiddleeast.com
4.5%
—
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for Wireless Carriers, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Carriers with reliable international roaming66154
02Which 5G networks deliver real world speeds?62146
03Prepaid mobile plans offering good value93139
04Mobile carriers offering the widest coverage47133
05Mobile operators dominating the regional market104120
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
O2score 35.1
▲ 1.5
Threescore 22.8
▲ 1.4
Vodafonescore 44.2
▲ 1.1
Falling
Verizonscore 69.2
▼ 2.0
Etisalatscore 25.9
▼ 2.0
T-Mobilescore 68.3
▼ 1.7
19 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±1.0/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
37,865,955 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Wireless Carriers, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States27.2M
02Australia4.3M
03United Kingdom3.1M
04Germany2.2M
05Canada320K
06Egypt292K
07France267K
08Japan89K
09United Arab Emirates27K
10Singapore26K
11Saudi Arabia18K
12Italy6K
12 tracked markets

How the Models Differ

Same industry, 4 verdicts
AI Mode
0 of 0 brands visible
01 Etisalat76.6
02 T-Mobile75.4
03 du75.1
04 Mint Mobile75.0
05 China Mobile74.9
ChatGPT
0 of 0 brands visible
01 Mint Mobile71.9
02 Rogers71.9
03 Telkomsel71.5
04 Deutsche Telekom71.3
05 Telus71.3
Copilot
0 of 0 brands visible
01 Bharti Airtel75.1
02 Reliance Jio74.6
03 Etisalat74.2
04 China Mobile73.8
05 T-Mobile73.7
Perplexity
0 of 0 brands visible
01 T-Mobile76.1
02 Verizon76.0
03 Mint Mobile75.0
04 AT&T74.1
05 Bharti Airtel73.5
This edition

What Changed This Month

Verizon leads Wireless Carriers this edition with a visibility score of 69.2, ahead of T-Mobile at 68.3.

lesnumeriques.com is the most-cited source grounding wireless carriers answers, at roughly 7.8% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 30.5% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked wireless carriers brands is 29.9, and a score above 29.9 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We run these prompts across the tracked models and across every market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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FAQ · Wireless Carriers

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Verizon currently leads AI search visibility in wireless carriers with a Goodie visibility score of 69.2, measured across the tracked AI models.

lesnumeriques.com is the most-cited source in wireless carriers AI answers, grounding roughly 7.8% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked wireless carriers brands is 29.9. A score above 29.9 places a brand in the industry top ten.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.