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Leading Wireless Carriers Brands in AI Search in the United States

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Verizon leads AI search visibility in Wireless Carriers in United States with a Goodie visibility score of 73.7, ahead of T-Mobile (73.7) and Google Fi (72.5). The median score across the 17 ranked brands is 34.4, and a score above 34.3 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is amazon.com at 6.4% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 30.4%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Wireless Carriers · United States
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
34.4
Half of the 17 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 73.0
Score to enter the top 10
34.3
Clearing 34.3 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 0.1 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
6.9
A typical answer names seven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 8.2
Citation mix
  • UGC 3%
  • Editorial 9%
  • Video 2%
  • Reference 7%
  • Retail 4%
  • Other 75%
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
30.4%
Owned content is in line with the index-wide average here.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
55/100
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
17 ranked here · 570 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
01Verizon
73.7
10.2%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 0.255reviews.org
02T-Mobile
73.7
10.2%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.964reviews.org
03Google Fi
72.5
10.0%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity—66t-mobile.com
04Mint Mobile
72.4
10.0%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.255tomsguide.com
05AT&T
71.8
9.9%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 0.745whistleout.com
06US Mobile
71.0
9.8%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 2.062usmobile.com
07Reliance Jio
38.9
5.4%AI ModeCopilot▼ 0.461ookla.com
08Shentong Metro Group
37.4
5.2%AI ModeChatGPT—42youtube.com
09Visible
34.4
4.7%ChatGPTPerplexity▼ 0.463tomsguide.com
10Cricket Wireless
34.3
4.7%ChatGPTCopilot▲ 0.340usmobile.com
17 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
01amazon.com
6.4%
—
02youtube.com
6.3%
—
03rsinc.com
5.2%
—
04cnet.com
3.8%
—
05vertu.com
3.7%
—
06jio.com
3.6%
—
07paytm.com
3.6%
—
08simology.io
3.6%
—
09americantv.com
3.2%
—
10reddit.com
3.2%
—
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
01Carriers with reliable international roaming51196
02Prepaid mobile plans offering good value37147
03Mobile operators dominating the regional market120124
04Mobile carriers offering the widest coverage10123
05Which 5G networks deliver real world speeds?17122
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Threescore 18.2
▲ 1.1
AT&Tscore 71.8
▲ 0.7
▲ 0.3
Falling
Total Wirelessscore 18.0
▼ 2.8
US Mobilescore 71.0
▼ 2.0
T-Mobilescore 73.7
▼ 1.9
12 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±1.0/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

Verizon leads Wireless Carriers this edition with a visibility score of 73.7, ahead of T-Mobile at 73.7.

amazon.com is the most-cited source grounding wireless carriers answers, at roughly 6.4% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 30.4% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked wireless carriers brands is 34.4, and a score above 34.3 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.

Verizon currently leads AI search visibility in wireless carriers with a Goodie visibility score of 73.7, measured across the tracked AI models.

amazon.com is the most-cited source in wireless carriers AI answers, grounding roughly 6.4% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked wireless carriers brands is 34.4. A score above 34.3 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.