Benton publishes The Emerging World of Broadband Public–Private Partnerships from authors Joanne Hovis and Marc Schulhof, Jim Baller and Ashley Stelfox, from the Coalition for Local Internet Choice.
Benton publishes Dr. Colin Rhinesmith and Angela Siefer's Digital Inclusion Outcomes-Based Evaluation, which describes the challenges facing community-based organizations in measuring the success of their digital inclusion programs and offers recommendations toward addressing these shared barriers (Legacy Fund).
NDIA gives the second annual Charles Benton Digital Equity Champion award to Emy Tseng of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Benton gives award to Tom Wheeler, the “public’s advocate,” for his service as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, 2013-2017.
The Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) awards the first Charles Benton Early Career Scholar Award to University of Dusseldorf doctoral student, Mirjam R.J. Lange, for Tariff Diversity and Competition Policy - Drivers for Broadband Adoption in the European Union (Legacy Fund).
Benton announces Denise Linn Riedl, Chief Innovation Officer, City of South Bend, IN, as Benton Fellow, and Jonathan Sallet, former general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission (2013-2016), and Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Litigation, US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (2016-2017) as Benton Senior Fellow.
- Ajit Pai is tapped to be FCC Chairman (serves until January 2021).
- Congress overturns FCC's broadband privacy rules.
- FCC repeals Open Internet rules.