Meetings not initialising with recipiant

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Hi Guys, I'm 'very' new to Zoom. I have joined, logged in and attempted to set-up an audio/video discussion with a long tome friend of mine with the basic 'free' version.

Everything looked simple & straight forward with the meeting booking, all I seemed required to do to set up the meeting was to select the day and time (with consideration of time variations within Australia), enter the e-mail address of the recipient and enter.

My selected meeting schedule came up my end as verification however, nothing was sent to or verified at the other end. Meeting time came and went with no advice received the other end. I reset a new schedule a few times with the same nil result at the recipient's end.

We the did a role reversal, my friend then set a meeting his end, entered the meeting details which was verified his end, but nothing came through my end as verification by e-mail. Meeting schedule came and went with no connection.

So please, where am I going wrong, what am I missing - someone please help, regards.