Microsoft-owned online voice and video calling service Skype is announcing today that in the next few weeks it will be rolling out video calls for groups of people — more than two — on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows 10 Mobile.
The feature, announced today in a Skype blog post, comes as Skype celebrates 10 years of free video calls.
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Group video calls became available for everyone for free in 2014.
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Now it’s coming to mobile devices for “hundreds of millions of mobile users,” Pall wrote.
Above: A Skype group video call on Android.
You can preregister for mobile group video calls here.
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