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Leading Wireless Carriers Brands in AI Search in the United States

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Shentong Metro Group leads AI search visibility in Wireless Carriers on ChatGPT in United States with a Goodie visibility score of 74.5, ahead of Google Fi (71.4) and Mint Mobile (69.9). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 68.1, and a score above 64.8 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is wikipedia.org at 3.6% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 43.9%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Wireless Carriers · ChatGPT
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
68.1
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 70.1
Score to enter the top 10
64.8
Clearing 64.8 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 3.3 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
4.9
A typical answer names five brands, so the consideration set is narrow and a mention is hard-won.
Index-wide average is 8.5
Citation mix
  • UGC 3%
  • Editorial 10%
  • Reference 14%
  • Other 73%
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
43.9%
Owned content is unusually strong here, brand domains are a citation source in their own right rather than just the subject of third-party coverage.
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
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
01Shentong Metro Group
74.5
10.9%ChatGPT—59androidcentral.com
02Google Fi
71.4
10.4%ChatGPT—62tomsguide.com
03Mint Mobile
69.9
10.2%ChatGPT▲ 9.156tomsguide.com
04Verizon
69.5
10.1%ChatGPT▼ 0.342whistleout.com
05Cricket Wireless
68.2
9.9%ChatGPT▲ 1.148usmobile.com
06T-Mobile
68.1
9.9%ChatGPT▼ 2.158whistleout.com
07Visible
67.3
9.8%ChatGPT▼ 1.465nerdwallet.com
08AT&T
66.3
9.7%ChatGPT▲ 1.532whistleout.com
09Tello
65.6
9.6%ChatGPT▼ 2.950usmobile.com
10US Mobile
64.8
9.5%ChatGPT▼ 5.963tomsguide.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
01wikipedia.org
3.6%
—
02whistleout.com
3.4%
▼ 0.1
03usmobile.com
2.5%
▼ 0.1
04att.com
2.3%
▲ 5.4
05reddit.com
2.3%
—
06reviews.org
2.3%
—
07tomsguide.com
2.2%
·
08opensignal.com
2.0%
—
09t-mobile.com
2.0%
▲ 1.7
10verizon.com
2.0%
▲ 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
01Carriers with reliable international roaming2138
02Mobile carriers offering the widest coverage524
03Which 5G networks deliver real world speeds?322
04Prepaid mobile plans offering good value1819
05Mobile operators dominating the regional market4217
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Mint Mobilescore 69.9
▲ 9.1
AT&Tscore 66.3
▲ 1.5
▲ 1.1
Falling
US Mobilescore 64.8
▼ 5.9
Telloscore 65.6
▼ 2.9
T-Mobilescore 68.1
▼ 2.1
8 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±3.0/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
23,399,953 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Wireless Carriers, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States16.4M
02Australia2.7M
03United Kingdom2.1M
04Germany1.5M
05Canada223K
06Egypt196K
07France187K
08Japan47K
09United Arab Emirates17K
10Singapore16K
11Saudi Arabia11K
12Italy3K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Shentong Metro Group leads Wireless Carriers this edition with a visibility score of 74.5, ahead of Google Fi at 71.4.

wikipedia.org is the most-cited source grounding wireless carriers answers, at roughly 3.6% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 43.9% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked wireless carriers brands is 68.1, and a score above 64.8 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.

Shentong Metro Group currently leads AI search visibility in wireless carriers with a Goodie visibility score of 74.5, measured across the tracked AI models.

wikipedia.org is the most-cited source in wireless carriers AI answers, grounding roughly 3.6% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked wireless carriers brands is 68.1. A score above 64.8 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.