Monday’s announcement that traffic generated by Comcast’s new Xbox streaming video service would not count against the cable giant’s 250GB monthly data cap drew swift denunciation from the network neutrality advocates at Public Knowledge.
In an e-mailed statement, PK President Gigi Sohn said that the new policy “raises questions not only of the justification for the caps but, more importantly, of the survival of an Open Internet.”
Advocates of network neutrality regulations have long worried that incumbent broadband providers would create a “fast lane” open only to content providers that paid a premium for access. Until now, those concerns have been largely theoretical.
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