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Leading Wireless Carriers Brands in AI Search

The same monthly sample, re-ranked using only AI Mode answers.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Etisalat leads AI search visibility in Wireless Carriers on AI Mode with a Goodie visibility score of 79.2, ahead of SK Telecom (76.6) and T-Mobile (75.7). The median score across the 7 ranked brands is 73.5. The most-cited source grounding these answers is segugio.it at 10.0% 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 · AI Mode
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
73.5
Half of the 7 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
—
Fewer than ten brands are ranked in this category, so there is no top-ten bar to report yet.
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 1%
  • Editorial 2%
  • Video 1%
  • Reference 4%
  • Other 92%
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
61/100
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
7 ranked here · 580 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
01Etisalat
79.2
15.2%AI Mode▼ 2.1725/13ookla.com
02SK Telecom
76.6
14.7%AI Mode—726/13ookla.com
03T-Mobile
75.7
14.5%AI Mode▲ 5.06112/13youtube.com
04Verizon
73.5
14.1%AI Mode▼ 0.15111/13youtube.com
05AT&T
72.3
13.9%AI Mode·479/13youtube.com
06Vodafone
71.9
13.8%AI Mode▲ 0.9547/13youtube.com
07US Mobile
71.3
13.7%AI Mode—695/13youtube.com
7 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
01segugio.it
10.0%
—
02whistleout.com.sg
7.0%
—
03whistleout.com.au
6.9%
—
04chip.de
5.9%
—
05finder.com.au
5.8%
▲ 5.3
06youtube.com
5.5%
▲ 1.6
07whistleout.ca
5.0%
▲ 0.8
08connection-technologies.co.uk
4.7%
—
09circles.life
4.7%
—
10accc.gov.au
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
01Mobile carriers offering the widest coverage3679
02Carriers with reliable international roaming2778
03Which 5G networks deliver real world speeds?2570
04Prepaid mobile plans offering good value3757
05Mobile operators dominating the regional market4850
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
T-Mobilescore 75.7
▲ 5.0
Vodafonescore 71.9
▲ 0.9
Falling
Etisalatscore 79.2
▼ 2.1
Verizonscore 73.5
▼ 0.1
5 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±1.6/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
13,129,539 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Wireless Carriers, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States9.8M
02Australia1.5M
03United Kingdom833K
04Germany697K
05Canada90K
06Egypt89K
07France74K
08Japan33K
09United Arab Emirates10K
10Singapore9K
11Saudi Arabia7K
12Italy2K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Etisalat leads Wireless Carriers this edition with a visibility score of 79.2, ahead of SK Telecom at 76.6.

segugio.it is the most-cited source grounding wireless carriers answers, at roughly 10.0% 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 73.5.

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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

Each tracked industry has a fixed set of prompts modelled on how people actually ask about it, so one month can be compared directly with the next.

Global Model Interrogation

We run each industry's prompts across the tracked models in each 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

Questions?
We Have
the Answers.

Etisalat currently leads AI search visibility in wireless carriers with a Goodie visibility score of 79.2, measured across the tracked AI models.

segugio.it is the most-cited source in wireless carriers AI answers, grounding roughly 10.0% of citations in this industry.

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.