Microsoft Teams video calls consume excessive mobile data
Users on mobile data plans report Microsoft Teams consumes significantly more data during video calls than competing platforms like Zoom or Google Meet. This increases costs for users on metered plans and causes quality degradation on limited connections. The root cause is platform-level compression and codec choices outside user control.
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