Tripleplay refers to service providers’ suite of services that cover telephony, television and fixed Internet services.

Tripleplay offerings came about through the natural evolution in communication and IT technologies. With the introduction of dial-up Internet service on top of the plain old telephony service (POTs), telecom service providers started offering dual services – telephony and Internet. The dial-up fixed Internet service was later superseded by Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) service that also ran on the POTs  infrastructure.

The advent of fiber broadband Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) saw both POTs and GPON running alongside each other. With fiber broadband, service providers were able to offer TV content via IPTV services. This gave rise to service providers’ triple-play offering comprising telephony, IPTV and fixed Internet services.

Fiber broadband also enabled service providers to deliver voice services on IP(VoIP) and in an increasing number of premises, the new VoIP services saw the gradual phasing out of POTs service.