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                               December 15, 2011

                                                                   DA 11-2022

   VIA CERTIFIED MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED

   AND E-MAIL

   Mr. Tyrone D. Pipkin

   c/o Mr. Walter Francis Becker, Jr.

   Chaffe McCall LLP

   Energy Centre

   1100 Poydras St., Suite 2300

   New Orleans, LA 70163-2300

   Re: Notice of Debarment

   File No. EB-11-IH-1071

   Dear Mr. Pipkin:

   The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) hereby notifies you
   that, pursuant to Section 54.8 of its rules, you are prohibited from
   participating in the schools and libraries universal service support
   mechanism (E-Rate program) for three years from either the date of your
   receipt of this Notice of Debarment, or of its publication in the Federal
   Register, whichever is earlier in time (Debarment Date).

   On August 17, 2011, the Commission's Enforcement Bureau (Bureau) sent you
   a Notice of Suspension and Initiation of Debarment Proceeding (Notice of
   Suspension) that was published in the Federal Register on September 2,
   2011. The Notice of Suspension suspended you from participating in
   activities associated with or relating to the schools and libraries
   universal service support mechanism and described the basis for initiating
   debarment proceedings against you, the applicable debarment procedures,
   and the effect of debarment.

   As discussed in the Notice of Suspension, you and others conspired to
   control the E-Rate application and implementation process for several
   schools located in four states. Specifically, you obstructed the open
   competitive bidding process by paying school officials $79,382 in bribes
   and kickbacks to ensure more than $1.4 million in E-Rate contracts would
   be steered to your company, Global Networking Technologies, Inc. For your
   role in the conspiracy, you were sentenced to serve one year and one day
   in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release for federal
   crimes in connection with your participation in a scheme to defraud the
   E-Rate program. The court ordered you to pay a $6,000 criminal fine in
   addition to your sentence. Pursuant to Section 54.8(c) of the Commission's
   rules, your conviction of criminal conduct in connection with the E-Rate
   program serves as a basis for your debarment.

   In accordance with the Commission's debarment rules, you were required to
   file with the Commission any opposition to your suspension or its scope,
   or to your proposed debarment or its scope, no later than 30 calendar days
   from either the date of your receipt of the Notice of Suspension or of its
   publication in the Federal Register, whichever date occurs first. The
   Commission did not receive any such opposition.

   For the foregoing reasons, you are debarred for three years from the
   Debarment Date. During this debarment period, you are excluded from
   participating in any activities associated with or related to the E-Rate
   program, including the receipt of funds or discounted services through the
   schools and libraries support mechanism, or consulting with, assisting, or
   advising applicants or service providers regarding the schools and
   libraries support mechanism.

   Sincerely,

   Theresa Z. Cavanaugh

   Acting Chief

   Investigations and Hearings Division

   Enforcement Bureau

   cc: Johnnay Schrieber, Universal Service Administrative Company (via
   e-mail)

   Rashann Duvall, Universal Service Administrative Company (via email)

   Juan Rodriguez, Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice
   (via e-mail)

   Marvin Opotowsky, Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice
   (via e-mail)

   47 C.F.R. S: 54.8(g) (2010). See also 47 C.F.R. S: 0.111 (delegating
   authority to the Enforcement Bureau to resolve universal service
   suspension and debarment proceedings).

   Letter from Theresa Z. Cavanaugh, Acting Chief, Investigations and
   Hearings Division, Enforcement Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
   to Tyrone D. Pipkin, Notice of Suspension and Initiation of Debarment
   Proceeding, DA 11-1424, 26 FCC Rcd 11389 (Inv. & Hearings Div., Enf. Bur.
   2011).

   76 Fed. Reg. 54768  (Sept. 2, 2011).

   Supra note 2.

   Notice of Suspension, 26 FCC Rcd at 11390.

   Id.

   See United States v. Tyrone D. Pipkin, Criminal Case Nos. 10-325 and 11-15
   "A",  Judgment (E.D. La. filed June 21, 2011).

   Notice of Suspension, 26 FCC Rcd at 11391.

   47 C.F.R. S: 54.8(c).

   47 C.F.R. S:S: 54.8 (e)(3), (4). Any opposition had to be filed no later
   than September 16, 2011.

   47 C.F.R. S:S: 54.8(e)(5), (g).

   47 C.F.R. S:S: 54.8(a)(1), (5), (d).

   Tyrone D. Pipkin

   December 15, 2011

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