"Triple Play" is where an infrastructure operator (their own or unbundled from an incumbent) provides Telephony, TV and Internet access in a bundle to the customer in order to optimise revenue.

Sounds good. There are only a couple of flaws.

1. TV hasn't been a license to print money for a long time, Telephony service revenues are plummeting and Internet access will continue to commoditise. Its a tribute to the enthusiasm to believe that "content is King," (its not, never has been, less since the supply has burgeoned so extraordinarily) and that a saviour exists to sustain margins as scarcity dwindles that even the best salesfolk can peddle this nonsense, along with the dreams of IMS. IMS, as far as I can see, is the ATM of the 2000's, an over complex solution to a problem that requires ubiquity of the supplier to solve.

2. As you may be aware, GNU, of the free software license fame is a recursive acronym, standing for "GNU's not Unix," recursion being the recurrence of the whole in the expansion. Triple Play suffers the same irony, they sell it as discreet services, however TV and Telephony can, unless degrading steps are taken, be delivered via the Internet service portion of the triple...

Thus it would seem one of the benefits (and essentials) of the Triple Play is to knee-cap the Internet ensuring the other parts of the Play play their part in producing revenue for the operator. Perhaps this is part of the reason AT&T/BellSouth struggled so mightily against Net Neutrality provisions and managed to sequester this threat to their legacy copper network (at least excluding U-verse from the agreement), a tactic Telecom repeats in New Zealand.