After Free and Mistral AI, Bouygues Telecom offers Perplexity Pro to all its customers
It won't have dragged! We told you yesterday that Free has associated itself with Mistral to offer its mobile subscribers for a year of free access to Le Cat Prothe paid offer of the French startup. A first for an operator. But he will not have stayed alone for a long time since Bouygues Telecom has just published a press release to present the same kind of offer. The French telecom operator has indeed set up a partnership with Perplexity AI, in order to offer a year of free subscription to Perplexity Pro to its mobile customers and box subscribers, individuals and professionals. This represents a saving of 220 euros per year for users. The offer is valid until February 11, 2026. At the end of the 12 months, the customer continues to benefit from the standard and free version of Perplexity.
For current Perplexity customers also
Looking closer to the small lines, we can read that this offer “Requires the activation of a Perplexity account (from the Bouyguestelecom.fr site or, if applicable, via activation email using the unique and personal internet link provided by Bouygues Telecom)”. But can those who already use Perplexity benefit from freely with their current account? And what about those who already have a professional account? These points not clearly explained in the press release, we asked the operator, who replied that “For the Bouygues Telecom client who already has a free or pro perplexity account, Perplexity will detect his account and put it in “break” to benefit from Perplexity Pro offered for 1 year“. An excellent news therefore for those who already pay IA service and who are currently at Bouygues Telecom.
Perplexity is the search engine for the future
A little less known to the general public than Chatgpt or Google Gemini, Perplexity is not a newcomer to the world of artificial intelligence. The tool of American society presents itself as a chatbot which wants to redefine research against conventional engines. Unlike the latter who list links according to keywords, Perplexity Pro directly provides detailed and sourced answers. Google also takes the same direction for its own search engine … with results for the moment mixed. But Perplexity is also a digital assistant capable of treating complex requests in real time, like Chatgpt. The tool is not limited to textual research: it also allows exchanges in oral format, the generation of images, the analysis of documents and prolonged conversations.
A response to new uses
Finally, in his press release, Bouygues Telecom did not fail to highlight a study by Born Ai, which affirms that the use of artificial intelligence is gradually anchored in the habits of the French. According to this study dated January 2025, 39 % of young people already use these tools and 72 % believe that they save them time. Bouygues Telecom hopes to support this development by offering a solution accessible to all its customers. And above all, the operator is not late compared to Free Mobile, unlike Orange and SFR. From there to imagine that integration announcements in one and / or the other of chatgpt plus or gemini 2.0 pro will fall in the coming weeks, there is only one step …
