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PowerBI - licensing
Licencing hasn't changed recently.
There is no licence which only allows users to view reports, what I think you're talking about is a Power BI Free licence. A Pro licence can only share reports with other Pro licences, not Free. To share Reports with a Free licence holder, the organisation requires a Premium Capacity licence and for the content to be on a Premium Capacity Workspace.
What I suspect has happened is that when the free users were invited to view the Report you shared with them, they also were invited to Trial a Pro licence free for 60 days. This has allowed them to view the Reports for the last 60 days but as the trial runs out they revert to Free users, unable to view the Report. This would also account for why some can still see the Report as they signed on to the Pro trial licence later than their colleagues and so still have a number of days of their trial licence to run.
Going forward you Free licence users will each need a Pro licence to view Report you have shared with them.
see: Power BI service features by license type - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Hope this helps
Stuart
Again, thank you very much for your reply. I have analyzed the text but I have one doubt. Maybe you can help me.
So if I buy PowerBI Premium per user for three operators, I will be able to share the resulting reports with all employees with a PowerBI license?