Sony ‘waiting for clarity’ from FCC

Aragon, who made his remarks at the Variety Entertainment and Technology Summit, joins Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, as well as a spate of consumer advocates, in expressing concerns about the legality of Comcast’s decision.

{mosads}Aragon said Sony believes that third-party video services can be viable given the right circumstances. “We do believe there’s a business model out there,” he said.

“These guys have the pipe and the bandwidth,” he said. “If they start capping things, it gets difficult.”

Comcast announced last month that videos downloaded using the company’s Xfinity app on the XBox 360 will not be subject to the company’s 250GB data cap. Comcast says that net-neutrality regulations don’t apply because the videos aren’t downloaded over the global Internet.

Consumer advocacy groups including Public Knowledge have decried Comcast’s policy as a violation not only of the neutrality rules but also of the merger conditions placed upon Comcast when it joined with NBC-Universal.

The FCC declined to comment. Comcast did not immediately respond to request for comment.

Updated at 1:37 p.m.