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Zoom's newest challenger: Budding internet tycoon Mukesh Ambani

Like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and other services, JioMeet offers unlimited high-definition calls - but unlike Zoom, it doesn't impose a 40-minute time limit.

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The app is one facet of Ambani’s rapidly expanding digital empire, which includes India’s largest telecom operator with nearly 400 million users.

Bloomberg
Zoom, one of the few success stories of the Covid-19 pandemic, now faces a new competitor in an app backed by Asia’s wealthiest person Mukesh Ambani. Ambani’s Reliance Industries, which has scored billions of dollars of investments from Facebook to Intel for its digital businesses, launched the JioMeet video conferencing app after beta testing. The app has already garnered more than 100,000 downloads on the Google Play Store after becoming available Thursday evening.

Like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and other services, JioMeet offers unlimited high-definition calls — but unlike Zoom, it doesn’t impose a 40-minute time limit. Calls can go on