If you are someone who uses Google Meet – a video conference platform from Google – from your personal account (or free) for a group call, there are some bad news for you.
Google Meet will no longer offer group calls without limit duration because the company has now imposed new limitations about the use of services using a free Google account.
What is Changinggoogle has imposed a 60-minute deadline for calls with three or more participants.
This means that if the meeting organizer has a free Gmail account, the meeting will expire in one hour.
Google also said that after 55 minutes of call, all call participants will get a notification that the call will end.
“To extend the call, the host can improve their Google account.
Otherwise, the call will expire in 60 minutes,” Google said.
What doesn’t change Google will continue to offer up to 24 hours to call one on one for a free Google Account Holder.
Why Google makes this change now, the internet search giant has extended support to offer free Google calls up to 24 hours every few months.
To remember, back in March 2020, Google has said that the Google Hangout feature (which is now renamed because Google Meet) will be free for all Gmail users.
One month after that, Google announced that Google Meet will be available for free for all Google account users until September 30, 2020.
Then, this deadline was extended until March 31, 2021.
Then in March, the company again decided to extend the deadline again until June 2021.
Google has not provided official reasons not to force time restrictions for group calls, but it seems to be the way the company wants to ensure that more people increase to the planned individual workspace subscription.
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