If you are someone who uses Google meet – the videoconferencing platform of Google – from your personal (or free) account for group calls, then there is bad news for you.
Google is ending its unlimited group video calls on Meet for free Gmail accounts a year after it introduced the feature to compete with video-calling app Zoom.
Google has imposed a 60-minute time limit for calls with three or more participants. This means that if the meeting organizer has a Gmail account, the meeting will have to end in an hour.
At 55 minutes, they will receive a notification that the call is about to end. To extend the call, users can upgrade their Google account, else, the call will end at 60 minutes.
Google first lifted the time limit on group calls in April last year as the pandemic induced work-from-home around the world. The feature was supposed to end in September but the tech giant extended the free unlimited calling feature to March 31,2021 and later to June 30.
Whereas, other video calling platforms have also handled one-on-one calls differently as compared with group calls.
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