Zoom’s Christmas gift to UAE residents: Unlimited calls this festive season

UAE residents, who are avoiding overseas travel during this holiday season because of the unprecedented raging novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, don’t need to despair about the usual 40-minute talk time cap for free users to Zoom Video Communications.

Zoom, which has emerged as a common feature of get-together with friends and families in the socially-distanced world following the viral outbreak, has reportedly said it was removing the time cap for its free accounts on all meetings globally for the holiday season.

The offer covers the annual celebrations of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the end of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa for the followers of Judaism and also the New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

The offer is valid from late December to early January.

According to Reuters, a Zoom spokesman said, “Whether coming together on the final day of Hanukkah, celebrating Christmas, ringing in the New Year, or marking the last days of Kwanzaa, those connecting with friends and family won’t get cut short.”

The Covid-19 pandemic, which has upended lives. has soared to new highs around the world with a new mutant strain, forcing people to hunker down at home and plan gatherings with friends and family online.

Earlier, Alphabet’s Google Meet had said free users would not have to limit conversations to 60 minutes till March.