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In connection with the Open Internet Order, the FCC Enforcement Bureau and Office of General Counsel have issued a Public Notice containing guidelines for complying with the transparency aspect of that order, which requires disclosure of network management practices
On May 20, 2011, the FCC adopted the Seventh Broadband Progress Report which reiterates the agency's 2010 finding that "broadband is not being deployed in a reasonable and timely fashion to all Americans
On February 10, 2011, President Obama announced a plan to spend $18 billion on mobile broadband, $5 billion of which would be spent in rural areas and $3 billion of which would be spent on government research in new wireless technologies
On July 7, 2011, two notices were issued in the Federal Register related to the FCC's Open Internet Order, which could signal that the Order itself will be published in the Federal Register soon
On October 11, 2011, the FCC released data on the number of Internet access connections in the US providing over 200 kilobits per second (kbps) in at least one direction as of December 31, 2010, as collected by FCC Form 477
On November 21, 2011, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell spoke at a lunch sponsored by the Federal Communications Bar Association and stated that he and Chairman Genachowski agree that the FCC should take action on Universal Service Fund (USF) contributions in the first half of 2012
