Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for everyone

Re:Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for ev... by bkovacev on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:55AM (#23017732)

We are being spammed by Google Account Managers to join in on the Google Meet, even though it's not available for our basic tier. After we have specifically declined the invitation multiple times, we are now being spammed to join in for free until September 30th. I do not want to break the Account Manger's heart, but we simply cannot rely on any product Google makes[0]. We still use docs/sheets and email, but that's about it - hopefully they won't manage to kill/mess that up as well.

[0] - https://killedbygoogle.com/

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Re:Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for ev... by sp332 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:09AM (#23017813)

You don't have to rely on Meet being around forever though. Video chats are ephemeral and if Meet goes away for some reason, you can switch to something else without too much pain.

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Re:Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for ev... by cameron_b on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:28AM (#23017917)

It’s not so painful these days but when we actually use conference rooms it’s a bit more painful to make all the microphones and cameras and displays and controllers talk to a new platform

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Re:Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for ev... by cett on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:20AM (#23017871)

Google don't generally seem to kill their enterprise cloud products, more the consumer ones

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Re:Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for ev... by Rebelgecko on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:02PM (#23024267)

Are you talking about the basic tier of GSuite? That actually does include Meet.

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Re:Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for ev... by heavenlyblue on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:11AM (#23017820)

You’re being spammed because their KPI shows that spamming their own Google Accounts increase the revenue from your account. Except they haven’t realised that the reason that revenue is increased is because the customers have to pay more for the email storage due to them spamming you.

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