Benton: 1. Benton Foundation Founder and Chairman Charles Benton dies; Leonard Jay Schrager succeeds Charles Benton as Chairman; 2. Gig.U and Benton give community leaders roapmap for getting better, faster, cheaper broadband with Blair Levin and Denise Linn's The Next Generation Network Connectivity Handbook; 3. Charles Benton and the Benton Foundation are recipients of the Alliance for Community Media Dirk Koning-George Stoney Award for Humanistic Communications; 4. Dr. Colin Rhinesmith named Benton Faculty Research Fellow (2015-2017); 6. Charles Benton is posthumous recipient of NATOA's Community Broadband Visionary Award
World: Comcast terminates Time Warner Cable merger agreement; Verizon purchases AOL
Policy World: FCC Adopts Open Internet rules and classifies broadband a telecommunications service; Broadband Opportunity Council releases report and recommendations
