This isn't true. How much bandwidth do you think streaming tv requires? It's not all the much, but it's not nothing, either. On a couple of occasions where the wife and I went on runs of binge watching, we got letters from our ISP telling is to stop using so much bandwidth or upgrade. Now, even with the upgraded internet our bill would have been well less than our DirecTV bill, but if you have a household (even a small one) of TV watchers all relying on streaming, it's going to add up. But on the cable/satellite side, you don't have to go full a la carte, they could require a basic package (maybe about the size and price of Sling TV's basic lineup) that includes networks like ESPN, MLBN, NFL, etc., and allow adding additional channels a la carte. Bandwidth refers to the bit-rate of a connection. You're talking about data caps.