PSA: Google Meet to limit conferences to 60 minutes on free plans September 30th

Google stated in April it can allow unlimited-length conferences in its Google Meet video chat platform for all customers till September 30th, and it seems to be cherish the corporate is sticking with that timeline. After September 30th, free variations of Meet shall be runt to conferences now no longer than 60 minutes.

“We don’t own anything to be in contact referring to changes to the promo and developed recommendations expiring,” a Google spokesperson told The Verge in an email Friday. “If this changes, we’ll be optimistic that to permit you to know.”

Below the extension, anyone with a Google myth would possibly per chance glean free conferences with up to 100 other folks, and without a closing date.

Additionally going away September 30th are access to developed recommendations for G Suite and G Suite for Education possibilities, along with allowing conferences of up to 250 members, live-streams of up to 100,000 other folks internal a single domain, and the skill to keep meeting recordings to Google Power. Those recommendations are most ceaselessly excellent accessible to possibilities on the “accomplishing” tier of G Suite, which costs $25 per consumer per 30 days.

Google Meet and various videconferencing platforms were chasing the meteoric rise of Zoom valid thru the coronavirus pandemic, with Meet passing 100 million day-to-day members abet in April.

For optimistic what this minimize-off date arrangement for many customers who don’t must upgrade to a paid Meet thought is that they’ll must limit their conference calls to 60 minutes or much less. No longer… indubitably seeing the downside there.