Federal Communications Commission FCC 06-126 
CONCURRING STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL J. COPPS
Re: NextiraOne, LLC, File No. EB-06-IH-1392
By ensuring that schools and libraries are connected with the Internet, the E-Rate program 
continues to perform the critical function of helping to prepare our nation’s children to succeed in the 
Digital Age.  Nowhere is this truer than on tribal lands where technology plays a vital role in overcoming 
geographic, economic, and historical hardships.  There are many people in the Schools and Libraries 
Division, at the FCC and Justice Department, and elsewhere, to be commended for their ongoing 
oversight of the program to ensure that limited resources go to those who need them most.  The 
conviction and one year debarment of NextiraOne from the E-Rate program are evidence of the ongoing 
effort to root out waste, fraud, and abuse.  While there were mitigating circumstances in this case to 
support the one year debarment period, I believe that a longer period may have been warranted given the 
severity of the company’s actions and the opportunity to send a message to E-Rate participants that 
violations of the program will not by tolerated by the FCC.  I therefore concur in this Order.