{"id":947633,"date":"2025-07-18T07:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947633"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:13:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:43:01","slug":"perplexity-teams-up-with-airtel-to-access-india-a-month-after-googles-free-gemini-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/18\/perplexity-teams-up-with-airtel-to-access-india-a-month-after-googles-free-gemini-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity teams up with Airtel to access India, a month after Google\u2019s free Gemini push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Just a month after Google announced a free one-year subscription to its premium AI toolset, Gemini 2.5 Pro, for college students in India, US-based AI-powered search platform Perplexity has now rolled out a similar offer. Customers of India\u2019s second-largest mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, can now access a free one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro. <\/p>\n<p>Valued at approximately \u20b917,000 annually, the Perplexity Pro subscription is now available at no cost to Airtel users across mobile, broadband, and DTH services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Just a month after Google announced a free one-year subscription to its premium AI toolset, Gemini 2.5 Pro, for college students in India, US-based AI-powered search platform Perplexity has now rolled out a similar offer. Customers of India\u2019s second-largest mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, can now access a free one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro. Valued at approximately \u20b917,000 annually, the Perplexity Pro subscription is now available at no cost to Airtel users across mobile, broadband, and DTH services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}