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Leading Wireless Carriers Brands in AI Search in the United States

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Tello Mobile leads AI search visibility in Wireless Carriers on Perplexity in United States with a Goodie visibility score of 77.5, ahead of Verizon (76.7) and Mint Mobile (75.8). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 74.8, and a score above 70.3 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is businessinsider.com at 4.1% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 31.5%.

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
74.8
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 76.4
Score to enter the top 10
70.3
Clearing 70.3 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 4.5 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
5.1
A typical answer names five brands, so the consideration set is narrow and a mention is hard-won.
Index-wide average is 6.8
Citation mix
  • UGC 5%
  • Editorial 18%
  • Video 2%
  • Reference 8%
  • Other 67%
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
31.5%
Owned content is in line with the index-wide average here.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
60/100
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
01Tello Mobile
77.5
10.4%Perplexity—68techradar.com
02Verizon
76.7
10.3%Perplexity▲ 1.065allconnect.com
03Mint Mobile
75.8
10.2%Perplexity▼ 8.767tomsguide.com
04T-Mobile
75.8
10.2%Perplexity▼ 5.565tomsguide.com
05Google Fi
75.2
10.1%Perplexity—52uswitch.com
06AT&T
74.4
10.0%Perplexity—54tomsguide.com
07Boost Mobile
74.3
10.0%Perplexity—66tomsguide.com
08US Mobile
73.5
9.9%Perplexity▼ 3.054businessinsider.com
09Three
72.9
9.8%Perplexity▲ 4.253allconnect.com
10Visible
70.3
9.4%Perplexity—61tomsguide.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
01businessinsider.com
4.1%
—
02tomsguide.com
4.0%
▲ 2.6
03t-mobile.com
3.9%
—
04cnet.com
3.6%
—
05ookla.com
2.9%
▲ 9.0
06flavor365.com
2.7%
—
07phonearena.com
2.7%
—
08reviews.org
2.4%
▲ 2.6
095gradar.com
2.4%
—
10wirefly.com
2.4%
—
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
01Mobile operators dominating the regional market3747
02Carriers with reliable international roaming2445
03Which 5G networks deliver real world speeds?440
04Prepaid mobile plans offering good value1934
05Mobile carriers offering the widest coverage424
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Threescore 72.9
▲ 4.2
Verizonscore 76.7
▲ 1.0
Falling
Mint Mobilescore 75.8
▼ 8.7
T-Mobilescore 75.8
▼ 5.5
US Mobilescore 73.5
▼ 3.0
5 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±4.5/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

Tello Mobile leads Wireless Carriers this edition with a visibility score of 77.5, ahead of Verizon at 76.7.

businessinsider.com is the most-cited source grounding wireless carriers answers, at roughly 4.1% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 31.5% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked wireless carriers brands is 74.8, 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

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the Answers.

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

businessinsider.com is the most-cited source in wireless carriers AI answers, grounding roughly 4.1% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked wireless carriers brands is 74.8. 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.