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Hawaiian Telcom

hawaiiantel.com · Telecom · HCOM

Ranked 5 of 2,047 companies in the study

53Overall score
  • Visibility65
  • Citations13
  • Sentiment72
  • Site quality80
  • AI readiness21
What this means for Hawaiian Telcom

AI assistants name Hawaiian Telcom in 63.3% of answers, much more often than the typical company in its sector, which is named in 5% of answers. Its overall score is 53 out of 100, ranking 5th of 2,047 companies and 1st among 41 in its sector. The website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the telecom market: none named Hawaiian Telcom. AI assistants named it in 38 of 60 answers (63.3%). The typical telecom company is named in 5.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Hawaiian Telcom ranks 3 of 41 in its sector.

Named by AI in
63.3%
38 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
66.7%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
1 of 41
by overall score, where the typical telecom company scores 30
How Hawaiian Telcom compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
65

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
13

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
72

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
80

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
21

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with telecom

41 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score53
Ranks 1 of 41. Typical company: 30
Named in answers63%
Ranks 3 of 41. Typical company: 5%
AI readiness21
Ranks 21 of 41. Typical company: 21
What Gemini actually said

An answer that names the company

“Satellite TV vs streaming TV services: which is better for Hawaii residents?”

Choosing between satellite TV and streaming TV services in Hawaii depends on several factors, including internet availability and speed, cost, desired channels, and lifestyle.

Internet Infrastructure in Hawaii

Hawaii has made significant strides in broadband connectivity. The FCC reports that 100% of households in Hawaii are eligible for broadband speeds of at least 25 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up. Hawaii's average download speed ranks 13th among all states at about 226 Mbps.

Providers like Spectrum and Hawaiian Telcom offer robust internet services. Spectrum is widely available, with gig sp …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

Hawaiian Telcom
73.1%
Viasat Hawaii
15.4%
HughesNet Hawaii
9.6%
Spectrum Hawaii
1.9%
Dish Hawaii
0.0%
Sandwich Isles Communications
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
14/15
Perplexity
10/15
Claude
9/15
OpenAI
5/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.hawaiiantel.com · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

3 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.

Training AI
  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly
Answering questions
  • ChatGPT-Userpartly
  • Claude-Userpartly
  • Perplexity-Userpartly
  • DuckAssistBotpartly
  • MistralAI-Userpartly

Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

hawaiiantel.com (its own website)
72
spectrum.com
54
allconnect.com
29
cnet.com
25
broadbandnow.com
22
cabletv.com
19
highspeedinternet.com
17
livinginhawaii.com
13
verizon.com
11
reddit.com
10

In the study as Consumer brands.

Every question, and where the company came up (15 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • Satellite TV vs streaming TV services: which is better for Hawaii residents?
  • Fiber internet vs cable internet pros and cons in Hawaii
  • Are there extra fees for business phone service installation in Hawaii?
  • How to improve slow Wi-Fi speeds in Hawaiian apartment buildings
  • How much does high-speed fiber internet typically cost per month in Hawaii?
  • Best internet speeds needed for remote working from home in Hawaii
  • Alternatives to fiber internet for rural areas in Hawaii
  • What are the most reliable TV and phone service options for businesses in Hawaii?
  • Best fiber internet providers for homes in Hawaii
  • What’s the best TV package for large families in Hawaii?
  • Are bundled internet, TV, and phone packages a good value for homeowners in Hawaii?
  • Is switching to 100% fiber internet worth it for a small business in Hawaii?
  • What are the options for internet and TV service if fiber isn’t available in your Hawaiian neighborhood?
  • What to do if your internet service stops working during a storm in Hawaii?
  • Top home phone service features to look for in Hawaii
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.

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