- Visibility37
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality80
- AI readiness36
AI assistants name T-Mobile US in 43.3% of answers, far more often than the typical company in its sector, which is named in 5% of answers. Its overall score is 39 out of 100, ranking 440th of 2,047 companies studied. The T-Mobile US website passes 5 of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the telecom market: none named T-Mobile US. AI assistants named it in 26 of 60 answers (43.3%). The typical telecom company is named in 5.0% of answers. By how often it is named, T-Mobile US ranks 4 of 41 in its sector.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
41 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Unlimited vs shared data plans: which is better for a family of four?”
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Unlimited Data Plans
Benefits:
No data limits: Unlimited plans offer the freedom to use as much data as needed without worrying about overage charges. This is ideal for families with heavy data users who frequently stream videos, play online games, or rely on mobile data for work or entertainment.
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The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.
We could not tell. The website turned away our requests for the files an agent would read. An agent arriving by itself is turned away the same way.
- UCPCould not check
- ACPCould not check
- AP2Not present
- x402Not present
- MPPNot present
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPassed
An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtPartly met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPassed
Explicit robots.txt rules for AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthCould not check
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogCould not check
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryCould not check
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceCould not check
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardCould not check
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardCould not check
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsCould not check
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestCould not check
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 54 of 100 · 65% of checks could run · checked on October 4, 2026 · t-mobile.com · 2,047 companies scanned
5 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.
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- Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Passedllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- PassedExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- 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%
This website sets rules for 15 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*partly
- ClaudeBot*partly
- Anthropic-AI*partly
- Google-Extended*partly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgent*partly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespider*partly
- CCBot*partly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBot*partly
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBot*partly
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbot*partly
- YouBot*partly
- ChatGPT-User*partly
- Claude-User*partly
- Perplexity-User*partly
- DuckAssistBot*partly
- 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.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as S&P 500.
- Unlimited vs shared data plans: which is better for a family of four?
- What is the average monthly price for unlimited mobile data in the United States?
- What are the best data plans for heavy video streaming on the go?
- Are premium mobile phone plans really better than basic budget options?
- Which wireless carriers offer the best 5G network coverage in rural areas?
- Options for wireless service without a long-term contract?
- Are there any hidden fees to watch out for with wireless service contracts?
- Which wireless providers support international calling and roaming within standard plans?
- Is an unlimited data plan worth the extra cost for a single user?
- What are some affordable alternatives to large wireless carriers?
- Why might a mobile phone connection be slow even with a 5G plan?
- What are the best unlimited data plans for families in the United States?
- How do prepaid mobile phone plans compare to postpaid plans in terms of features and flexibility?
- Which mobile virtual network operators offer strong nationwide service?
- How can I troubleshoot dropped calls on my wireless service?
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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