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Leading Wireless Carriers Brands in AI Search

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

August 2026 edition

Across the six months through August 2026, China Mobile leads AI search visibility in Wireless Carriers on Perplexity with a Goodie visibility score of 74.6, ahead of AT&T (74.2) and TPG (74.1). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 72.0. The most-cited source grounding these answers is businessinsider.com at 3.2% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 29.4%.

5k prompts · 1.7m AI answers · 7.7m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

August 2026 · Wireless Carriers · Perplexity
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
72.0
Half of the 10 ranked wireless carriers brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 74.5
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
6.3
A typical answer names six brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 7.7
Citation mix
  • UGC 6%
  • Editorial 15%
  • Video 2%
  • Reference 10%
  • Other 67%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding wireless carriers answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here.
Brand-owned citation share
29.4%
Owned content is unusually strong here — brand domains are a citation source in their own right, not just the subject of third-party coverage.
Index-wide average is 24.2%
Industry sentiment
81/100
Mean tone of mentions across all ranked brands. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
5k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
1.7m
201k in August · ▼ 2.9% vs July
Citations parsed
7.7m
1m in August · ▲ 7.5% vs July
Brands observed
483
10 ranked here · 473 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

All models AI Mode ChatGPT Copilot Perplexity
Brand visibility leaderboard for Wireless Carriers, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01China Mobile
74.6
10.4%Perplexity▼ 4.882gsmaintelligence.com
02AT&T
74.2
10.3%Perplexity▲ 5.082tomsguide.com
03TPG
74.1
10.3%Perplexity▲ 3.982techradar.com
04Telefónica
73.4
10.2%Perplexity▲ 8.782gsmaintelligence.com
05Verizon
72.4
10.1%Perplexity▲ 4.481tomsguide.com
06Optus
71.6
10.0%Perplexity—81finder.com.au
07T-Mobile
70.6
9.8%Perplexity▲ 7.880tomsguide.com
08Felix Mobile
70.2
9.8%Perplexity▲ 7.980canstar.com.au
09Vodafone
70.0
9.7%Perplexity—80finder.com.au
10Telstra
66.7
9.3%Perplexity—78finder.com.au
10 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Aug with Jul

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Wireless Carriers
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01businessinsider.com
3.2%
—
02finder.com.au
2.9%
—
03canstar.com.au
2.8%
·
04tomsguide.com
2.6%
▲ 3.6
05cnet.com
2.4%
▲ 1.8
06techradar.com
2.3%
▲ 1.8
07nerdwallet.com
2.3%
—
08reddit.com
2.3%
—
09allconnect.com
2.1%
▲ 0.9
10aldimobile.com.au
1.9%
—
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Aug with Jul, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Top prompts

Top prompts sampled for Wireless Carriers, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Mobile operators dominating the regional market3150
02Mobile carriers offering the widest coverage1243
03Prepaid mobile plans offering good value2541
04Carriers with reliable international roaming1841
05Which 5G networks deliver real world speeds?927
Top 5 of 5k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Aug vs Jul
Rising
Telefónicascore 73.4
▲ 8.7
Felix Mobilescore 70.2
▲ 7.9
T-Mobilescore 70.6
▲ 7.8
Falling
China Mobilescore 74.6
▼ 4.8
7 ranked brands scored in both Jul and AugIndustry avg ±6.1/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
1,373,170 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Wireless Carriers, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States1.1M
02United Kingdom120K
03Australia64K
04Germany44K
05Canada6K
06Egypt5K
07France5K
08Japan2K
09United Arab Emirates427
10Singapore310
11Saudi Arabia244
12Italy73
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

China Mobile leads Wireless Carriers this edition with a visibility score of 74.6, ahead of AT&T at 74.2.

businessinsider.com is the most-cited source grounding wireless carriers answers, at roughly 3.2% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 29.4% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked wireless carriers brands is 72.0, and a score above 59.8 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 execute these prompts across different models, including GPT, Perplexity, AI Mode, and more, and across different regions. This allows us to map model understand exactly "how they think" in each market.

Attribution Mapping

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China Mobile currently leads AI search visibility in wireless carriers with a Goodie visibility score of 74.6, measured across the tracked AI models.

businessinsider.com is the most-cited source in wireless carriers AI answers, grounding roughly 3.2% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked wireless carriers brands is 72.0. A score above 59.8 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.