This is not peculiar to Zoom only but to probably all video conferencing apps. Users always complain of heavy data consumption.
And this is a serious concern, especially for people who are from countries where the price of internet data is on the high.
In Nigeria for instance, internet data cost has to drain huge financial bundles on individuals and small startups businesses who rely on data to carry out their services and keep in touch with clients.
Neither the government or data service providing companies have done much in reducing the cost of data. An average business in Nigeria spends about 17 percent of its running cost on data.
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Step 1. The Meeting host should ensure that everyone joining the meeting have a profile picture displayed on their profiles. This would help Co-meeting participants to easily identify you.
Step 2. The meeting should be held with a video camera off. This is a huge step in saving data as video conferencing consumes much internet data.
This step is crucial and important except the meeting might need a visual interaction, everybody one the meeting should stick to just audio.
Step 3. All participants joining a meeting should ensure to mute their mic to avoid background noises creating distractions.
Meeting participants should raise their hands to have the floor for their opinions and such a person can unmute his/her mic.
Step 4. Matters to be discussed should be drop on the meeting via the chatbox. This gives less room for meeting prolongment as all matters to be discussed are already itemized and shared amongst the meeting participants.
Step 5. All matters to be discussed should be allocated a time frame to avoid the prolongment of issues. This would help have a fixed meeting duration.
Following these 5 simple steps can help you save huge Internet data while hosting a meeting on the Zoom video conferencing App.