Adrianne Benton Furniss becomes Benton Executive Director (2013-present).
Benton publishes The New Network Compact: Making the IP Transition Work for Vulnerable Communities, which asks policymakers to make certain that our newest technologies continue to support some of our oldest values—accessibility, diversity, ubiquity, openness, competition, trustworthiness, interconnection, resiliency and robustness, speed, and innovation.
Robert Cohen, President, Four Corners Media Management, and Austin Hirsch, Partner, and former member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Finance Committee, Reed Smith LLP, join Benton’s Board of Directors.
National Highlights:
- Tom Wheeler is appointed FCC Chairman (serves until 2017).
- Japan's SoftBank completes purchase of Sprint.