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Leading Wireless Carriers Brands in AI Search in Italy

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, China Mobile leads AI search visibility in Wireless Carriers on Perplexity in Italy with a Goodie visibility score of 77.5, ahead of Bharti Airtel (77.4) and T-Mobile (77.4). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 76.6, and a score above 70.3 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is selectra.net at 7.5% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 22.2%.

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
76.6
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 75.7
Score to enter the top 10
70.3
Clearing 70.3 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 6.3 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
5.7
A typical answer names six brands, so the consideration set is narrow and a mention is hard-won.
Index-wide average is 6.7
Citation mix
  • UGC 2%
  • Editorial 9%
  • Video 1%
  • Reference 9%
  • 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
22.2%
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
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
01China Mobile
77.5
10.3%Perplexity—75tridenstechnology.com
02Bharti Airtel
77.4
10.3%Perplexity—32tridenstechnology.com
03T-Mobile
77.4
10.3%Perplexity▼ 12.058tomsguide.com
04Verizon
77.2
10.3%Perplexity—50tomsguide.com
05AT&T
77.0
10.2%Perplexity—50tomsguide.com
06Mint Mobile
76.2
10.1%Perplexity—66businessinsider.com
07Three
74.2
9.9%Perplexity—73moneysupermarket.com
08US Mobile
73.4
9.8%Perplexity▲ 0.370businessinsider.com
09Shentong Metro Group
70.8
9.4%Perplexity—25answers.com
10Visible
70.3
9.4%Perplexity—64canstar.com.au
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
01selectra.net
7.5%
—
02innovazione.gov.it
5.8%
—
03segugio.it
5.8%
—
04opensignal.com
5.0%
—
05ookla.com
4.3%
—
06businessinsider.com
3.5%
—
07punto-informatico.it
3.3%
—
08wikipedia.org
3.3%
—
09tomsguide.com
3.1%
▲ 4.0
10androidcentral.com
3.0%
—
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 value3947
02Which 5G networks deliver real world speeds?536
03Carriers with reliable international roaming2233
04Mobile operators dominating the regional market3028
05Quale operatore ha ancora segnale dove gli altri cadono?47
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
US Mobilescore 73.4
▲ 0.3
Falling
T-Mobilescore 77.4
▼ 12.0
2 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±6.1/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

China Mobile leads Wireless Carriers this edition with a visibility score of 77.5, ahead of Bharti Airtel at 77.4.

selectra.net is the most-cited source grounding wireless carriers answers, at roughly 7.5% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 22.2% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked wireless carriers brands is 76.6, and a score above 70.3 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.

China Mobile currently leads AI search visibility in wireless carriers with a Goodie visibility score of 77.5, measured across the tracked AI models.

selectra.net is the most-cited source in wireless carriers AI answers, grounding roughly 7.5% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked wireless carriers brands is 76.6. A score above 70.3 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.