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Leading Wireless Carriers Brands in AI Search in Germany

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, T-Mobile leads AI search visibility in Wireless Carriers on AI Mode in Germany with a Goodie visibility score of 78.6, ahead of Deutsche Telekom (77.7) and Vodafone Germany (75.8). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 73.7, and a score above 69.1 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is chip.de at 5.9% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 26.5%.

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
73.7
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 72.0
Score to enter the top 10
69.1
Clearing 69.1 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 4.7 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
6.4
A typical answer names six brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 7.9
Citation mix
  • UGC 5%
  • Editorial 8%
  • Video 3%
  • Reference 5%
  • Retail 1%
  • Other 78%
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
26.5%
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
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
10 ranked here · 577 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
78.6
10.7%AI Mode—62youtube.com
02Deutsche Telekom
77.7
10.6%AI Mode▼ 1.169opensignal.com
03Vodafone Germany
75.8
10.3%AI Mode—635g-anbieter.info
04Google Fi
74.5
10.1%AI Mode—59allconnect.com
05Verizon
74.3
10.1%AI Mode—58youtube.com
06US Mobile
73.1
9.9%AI Mode—67youtube.com
07AT&T
72.5
9.9%AI Mode—50youtube.com
08Vodafone
70.4
9.6%AI Mode—54cellesim.com
09Lidl Connect
70.0
9.5%AI Mode▼ 9.347chip.de
10O2
69.1
9.4%AI Mode▲ 0.137cellesim.com
10 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
01chip.de
5.9%
—
02youtube.com
5.8%
—
03whistleout.com.au
4.5%
—
04reddit.com
4.5%
—
05ookla.com
4.3%
▼ 0.2
06bundesnetzagentur.de
4.2%
—
07finanztip.de
4.2%
—
08textnow.com
4.1%
—
09how-to-germany.com
3.6%
—
10usmobile.com
3.6%
—
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 value3397
02Carriers with reliable international roaming3282
03Mobile carriers offering the widest coverage2064
04Which 5G networks deliver real world speeds?1445
05Welche Prepaid-Karte ist fürs Geld, das ich drauflege, okay?57
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
O2score 69.1
▲ 0.1
Falling
Lidl Connectscore 70.0
▼ 9.3
▼ 1.1
3 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±3.5/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

T-Mobile leads Wireless Carriers this edition with a visibility score of 78.6, ahead of Deutsche Telekom at 77.7.

chip.de is the most-cited source grounding wireless carriers answers, at roughly 5.9% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 26.5% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked wireless carriers brands is 73.7, and a score above 69.1 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?
We Have
the Answers.

T-Mobile currently leads AI search visibility in wireless carriers with a Goodie visibility score of 78.6, measured across the tracked AI models.

chip.de is the most-cited source in wireless carriers AI answers, grounding roughly 5.9% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked wireless carriers brands is 73.7. A score above 69.1 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.