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Comcast will soon be giving Xbox Live users a freebie on their data usage caps IF they stream Comcast On Demand videos through their Xbox 360. Comcast gives their subscribers a 250 GB monthly data limit, but will not count any data toward this monthly allotment for certain scenarios.
This will likely not set well with net neutrality advocates, who believe that internet usage should be unlimited without prejudices like this. With the Comcast scenario. if you want to protect your precious data, then you will continue to subscribe to Comcast TV bundles, rather than Netflix movies or other streaming services that are much more affordable.
Comcast noted on their website that “Xbox content is being delivered over our private IP network and not the public internet.” But net neutrality advocates lobbying for an open internet cite a concern that Netflix raised a few years back when the FCC was considering updating their policies that included exempting managed services of private IP-based services. Netflix noted that “if left unchecked, the managed services category could engulf the Commission’s open internet policies altogether,” rendering them meaningless in effect.
As entertainment subscription services transition from DVD mailing services to on demand streaming service subscriptions, this issue will certain be brought to the forefront as TV subscription providers like Comcast are worried about a mass exodus due to high priced bundles that leave consumers scratching their heads and wondering how to justify the monthly cost in their already strained budgets.
