Cisco representatives urged the FCC Wireline Bureau Thursday...
Cisco representatives urged the FCC Wireline Bureau Thursday to review the Universal Service Administrative Co.’s (USAC) finding that audio communication components of Cisco’s WebEx conferencing service are a telecommunications service under the 1996 Telecom Act (http://bit.ly/1cGPtju). Designating those components as…
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a telecommunications service would make a portion of WebEx revenue eligible for assessment for USF contributions (CD May 20 p6). Jeff Campbell, Cisco vice president-government affairs, and Cisco counsel Walter Anderson told the bureau staff that USAC improperly applied FCC precedents and failed to “accept WebEx’s reasonable unbundling of its revenues -- positions that commenters broadly support,” Cisco said in an ex parte filing. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s decision that The Conference Group lacked standing to challenge the FCC’s ruling that audio bridging software by InterCall must pay into the USF (CD July 3 p4) “has no bearing on the application of the InterCall Orders to WebEx’s service because the D.C. Circuit concluded only that The Conference Group and WebEx lacked standing to challenge the InterCall Orders, and the court did not reach the merits of the parties’ challenge to the InterCall Orders,” Cisco said.