Facebook unveiled Messenger Rooms last week. This Wednesday, Google is releasing heavy ordnance: its, which was previously paid and reserved for companies, will. The deployment is due to start next Monday and will be spread over several weeks. The meet will gradually replace the Hangouts video chat, which had not really changed in several years.

Previously known as ‘the tool has only been available to G Suite customers until now.

Last month, the premium version of Meet was made free to existing G Suite users.

People could join a Meet call without paying for the product, but the call still had to be started by someone with a paid G Suite account.