Cisco WebEx made a “good faith effort to...

Cisco WebEx made a “good faith effort to report the revenue derived from WebEx sessions conducted entirely by phone as telecommunications revenue,” Cisco told FCC Wireline Bureau officials, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/MUPw27). Cisco has challenged a Universal Service Administrative Co. ruling that audio communication portions of the WebEx conferencing service should be considered a telecom service (CD May 20 p6). Because WebEx is a “tightly integrated information service,” Cisco could not “simply identify audio-only WebEx usage” and therefore “could only devise an over-inclusive proxy” that reported minutes from WebEx sessions initiated by telephone, and minutes from “call legs that joined a WebEx session before an online meeting has started,” it said. “This proxy illustrates the tightly-integrated nature of WebEx service."