The discontinuation of G Suite free accounts continues to cause trouble and could cause problems not only for users but also for Google. This has obviously been noticed and a solution seems to be sought in the short term that everyone involved can live with. One would like to have alternative offers ready with which the understandable dilemma can be gotten under control.
Google will be pulling the plug on the free G Suite accounts very soon, causing some problems for the loyal users of this plan. They either have to pay for the service in the future or say goodbye to the main part of the account. Although the account is not blocked and the purchased content is still accessible, the overall solution is very unfortunate for users and ultimately certainly for Google. You can find all the details in this article.
Now the reaction is that users are up in arms about this announcement and a class action lawsuit is even being formed in the USA. One would like to offer “further options” that could be of interest to users of the version available at the time. So far, this has not been officially announced, but only mentioned in a survey. With this, you want to find out whether the users are interested in something like that at all.
It is quite possible that this is just a cheaper package for this user group. I don’t think that it will continue to be offered for free and there is still no talk of moving the data to a free account. It remains to be seen how the story continues. But this time, too, the trouble could have been avoided if Google had reacted early enough and offered alternative options.