Market cut · China

Leading Wireless Carriers Brands in AI Search in China

The Wireless Carriers index re-ranked using only prompts and answers from China.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, T-Mobile leads AI search visibility in Wireless Carriers in China with a Goodie visibility score of 71.8, ahead of Verizon (70.1) and Bharti Airtel (53.4). The median score across the 22 ranked brands is 27.2, and a score above 34.7 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is sina.com.cn at 7.6% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 27.5%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Wireless Carriers · China
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
27.2
Half of the 22 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 71.9
Score to enter the top 10
34.7
Clearing 34.7 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 7.5 points above the midpoint, so the leaderboard is tightly held.
Brands named per answer
7.1
A typical answer names seven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 7.9
Citation mix
  • UGC 3%
  • Editorial 7%
  • Video 2%
  • Reference 4%
  • Other 84%
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
27.5%
Owned content is in line with the index-wide average here.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
53/100
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
22 ranked here · 565 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Wireless Carriers, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01T-Mobile
71.8
10.1%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 9.461tomsguide.com
02Verizon
70.1
9.8%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 3.154tomsguide.com
03Bharti Airtel
53.4
7.5%ChatGPTCopilotPerplexity—37wikipedia.org
04Mint Mobile
52.6
7.4%ChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 0.359tomsguide.com
05Reliance Jio
52.1
7.3%ChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 2.054opensignal.com
06SK Telecom
38.0
5.3%AI ModeCopilot▲ 0.172opensignal.com
07China Mobile
36.1
5.1%AI ModePerplexity▲ 1.350wikipedia.org
08Visible
35.6
5.0%ChatGPTCopilot▲ 0.573tomsguide.com
09AT&T
35.2
4.9%ChatGPTCopilot—43tomsguide.com
10US Mobile
34.7
4.9%AI ModePerplexity—61tomsguide.com
22 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop 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
7.6%
—
02opensignal.com
4.6%
▲ 2.0
03sina.cn
4.6%
—
04thedigitalmerchant.com
4.5%
—
05youtube.com
4.5%
—
06tomsguide.com
4.2%
▲ 2.1
07yournavi.com
4.2%
—
08businesswire.com
4.2%
—
09ookla.com
3.8%
▲ 8.1
10techradar.com
3.8%
—
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
01Prepaid mobile plans offering good value64144
02Carriers with reliable international roaming86135
03Mobile operators dominating the regional market93122
04Mobile carriers offering the widest coverage59122
05哪家 5G 在外面用是真的快,不只是广告?913
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
T-Mobilescore 71.8
▲ 9.4
EEscore 16.9
▲ 3.4
Verizonscore 70.1
▲ 3.1
Falling
NTT Docomoscore 17.0
▼ 1.1
14 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±2.1/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
This edition

What Changed This Month

T-Mobile leads Wireless Carriers this edition with a visibility score of 71.8, ahead of Verizon at 70.1.

sina.com.cn is the most-cited source grounding wireless carriers answers, at roughly 7.6% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 27.5% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked wireless carriers brands is 27.2, and a score above 34.7 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

Questions?
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the Answers.

T-Mobile currently leads AI search visibility in wireless carriers with a Goodie visibility score of 71.8, measured across the tracked AI models.

sina.com.cn is the most-cited source in wireless carriers AI answers, grounding roughly 7.6% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked wireless carriers brands is 27.2. A score above 34.7 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.