Google announced that it is making its Google Meet videoconferencing service free to everyone. This is instead of just offering it to enterprise and education customers via G Suite.
Now, anyone with a Google account will now be able to create free meetings of up to 100 people. The meeting can also last for an unlimited amount of time.
The tech giant may restrict the length of meetings to 60 minutes from 30th September, however, users can chat for as long as they please.
“If you have an existing Google Account (for example, if you’re a @gmail.com user), sign in at meet.google.com to get started. If you don’t have a free Google Account, it only takes a minute to create one using your work or personal email address of choice (we require this step as a security measure, and you’ll only need to do this once),” the company announced in a blog post.
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It may take a while for everybody to access the free service as it is gradually being rolled out. But, from next week, most Google account owners will be granted access to the service.
To start video calling for free, all you need to do is go to meet.google.com and start a conference call. The service will also be available for free on both the Meet iOS and Android apps.
Google says that the platform will be safe, that is when it is compared to its rivals. This is because it’s difficult to guess meeting codes and Meet runs in the browser making it less vulnerable to security threats.
This will possibly eliminate the risk of uninvited guests barging into meetings by guessing the codes; as with Zoom in the act known as Zoombombing.
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