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title: "AI Visibility in Mobile Networks"
description: "Which mobile networks do ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini recommend in South Africa? MTN leads - see the full AI visibility ranking."
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AI Visibility Report ·

Executive summary

## What the AI assistants are telling buyers

Methodology

## The questions we asked

Every prompt was put to each assistant with live web search on, repeated multiple times to smooth variation. These are real buyer-intent questions, grouped by intent.

The scoreboard

## AI Visibility Quality Score

A single 0-100 measure of category visibility: how often a brand is named, weighted by the rank it's given in each answer. Higher = named more often and higher up. Gold = category leader.

Brand by brand

## Where each contender stands - and the opening

The leading brands, what the data says about each, and the most actionable gap to close. Read these as the starting point for a visibility strategy.

The endorsement gap

## Mentioned vs. Recommended

Being named is not the same as being recommended. The light bar is how often a brand is **mentioned** (named in an answer); the dark bar is how often it is the **active recommendation** - both measured as a share of all answers, so Recommended always sits inside Mentioned. A wide gap is awareness without endorsement - the most addressable opportunity in AI search.

Across models

## Results across the three LLMs

How often each brand is **mentioned** and **recommended** by each model, as a share of that model's answers. "AI visibility" is really three different audiences - a brand can own one model and be near-invisible on another.

By buyer question

## Who wins which question

Top brands by mention rate within each type of question buyers ask. Visibility is not uniform - a brand can dominate "best gateway" yet vanish on "lowest fees."

Source influence

## What the AI reads

The number of answers that cited each domain. This is whose content is shaping the assistants' view - and where earned coverage moves the needle.

On the radar

## Off-watchlist mentions

Brands & methods the engines raised that weren't on the tracked list. Recurring names are emerging competitors worth watching.

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