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

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Google said in April it would allow unlimited-length memoranda in its Google Reconciled video conversation rostrum for all users until September 30th, as able-bodied as it looks like the convergence is surprised with that timeline. Afterwards September 30th, free-willed versions of Reconciled will be prance to memoranda no longer than 60 minutes.

"We don't hypothesize anything to communicate relating changes to the promo as able-bodied as exhausted features expiring," a Google spokesperson told The Verge in an email Friday. "If this changes, we'll be sure to let you know."

Under the extension, anyone with a Google almanac could emblematize free-willed memoranda with up to 100 people, as able-bodied as with no time limit.

Also hoopla else September 30th are access to exhausted features for G Suite as able-bodied as G Apartment for Instruction customers, including arrogation memoranda of up to 250 participants, live-streams of up to 100,000 bodies aural a single domain, as able-bodied as the deftness to save palaver recordings to Google Drive. Those features are routinely personalized close-at-hand to customers on the "enterprise" bank of G Suite, which expenses $25 per user per month.

Google Reconciled as able-bodied as padding videconferencing platforms hypothesize been chasing the meteoric speed of Zoom during the coronavirus pandemic, with Reconciled passing 100 mimic daily participants convey in April.

Of skookumchuck what this deadline ways for picked users who don't appetite to upgrade to a paid Reconciled plan is that they'll hypothesize to loftiest their conferring calls to 60 minutes or less. Not... really seeing the downside there.