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Leading Wireless Carriers Brands in AI Search

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Verizon leads AI search visibility in Wireless Carriers on Perplexity with a Goodie visibility score of 76.2, ahead of T-Mobile (76.2) and Mint Mobile (75.3). The median score across the 9 ranked brands is 73.9. The most-cited source grounding these answers is sina.com.cn at 13.3% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 26.8%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 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
73.9
Half of the 9 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
5.2
A typical answer names five brands, so the consideration set is narrow and a mention is hard-won.
Citation mix
  • UGC 2%
  • Editorial 4%
  • Video 1%
  • Reference 5%
  • Other 88%
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
26.8%
Owned content sits below the index-wide average here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
56/100
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
9 ranked here · 578 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
76.2
11.5%Perplexity▼ 8.25213/13tomsguide.com
02T-Mobile
76.2
11.4%Perplexity▼ 5.56113/13tomsguide.com
03Mint Mobile
75.3
11.3%Perplexity▼ 6.46313/13tomsguide.com
04AT&T
75.3
11.3%Perplexity▼ 11.44812/13tomsguide.com
05Google Fi
73.9
11.1%Perplexity▼ 7.8579/13uswitch.com
06Bharti Airtel
73.3
11.0%Perplexity—355/13fortunebusinessinsights.com
07US Mobile
72.0
10.8%Perplexity▼ 2.9608/13nerdwallet.com
08Visible
71.9
10.8%Perplexity▲ 5.56411/13nerdwallet.com
09Three
71.2
10.7%Perplexity▲ 9.1686/13uswitch.com
9 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
01sina.com.cn
13.3%
—
02selectra.info
11.7%
—
03softbank.jp
11.7%
—
04lesnumeriques.com
9.2%
—
05sina.cn
8.3%
—
06au.com
7.5%
—
07selectra.net
7.5%
—
08docomo.ne.jp
6.7%
—
09finanztip.de
6.7%
—
10handelsblatt.com
6.7%
—
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 operators dominating the regional market3347
02Which 5G networks deliver real world speeds?847
03Prepaid mobile plans offering good value3139
04Carriers with reliable international roaming1832
05Mobile carriers offering the widest coverage427
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Threescore 71.2
▲ 9.1
Visiblescore 71.9
▲ 5.5
Falling
AT&Tscore 75.3
▼ 11.4
Verizonscore 76.2
▼ 8.2
Google Fiscore 73.9
▼ 7.8
8 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±7.1/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
740,108 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Wireless Carriers, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States606K
02United Kingdom64K
03Australia39K
04Germany22K
05Canada3K
06Egypt3K
07France2K
08Japan1K
09United Arab Emirates262
10Singapore217
11Saudi Arabia164
12Italy53
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Verizon leads Wireless Carriers this edition with a visibility score of 76.2, ahead of T-Mobile at 76.2.

sina.com.cn is the most-cited source grounding wireless carriers answers, at roughly 13.3% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 26.8% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked wireless carriers brands is 73.9.

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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?
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the Answers.

Verizon currently leads AI search visibility in wireless carriers with a Goodie visibility score of 76.2, measured across the tracked AI models.

sina.com.cn is the most-cited source in wireless carriers AI answers, grounding roughly 13.3% 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.