The company is said to take nearly two years to make a transition from Duo to Meet.
The limit is equal to what Apple offers in FaceTime and a lot more than WhatsApp’s four users at a time.
Its biggest competition is FaceTime, which allows up to 32 individuals to communicate simultaneously.
Truecaller made a series of announcements, launching partnerships with Airtel for the telco's feature phone users, with Google for their video calling app Duo & with ICICI BANK for a new payments service. CNBC-TV18's Megha Vishwanath catches up with the founders of Truecaller in Delhi.
"This has been in the works for some time and we are glad that we are launching the service from India, which has our largest userbase. Like voice calls, video calls are also going to be dynamic i.e. depending on the quality of network, the video will adjust accordingly," WhatsApp Head of Business Neeraj Arora said.
Ahead of the festive season, handset maker Micromax will launch four 4G smartphones, priced under USD 100 (about Rs 5,700), to cash in on the booming demand for LTE devices.
The video calling app, which was first announced by Google three months ago at its I/O developer conference, aims to take the "complexity out of video calling".