It will come as no surprise to existing broadband customers of Bouygues Telecom, but the IPTV and triple play system it launched back in October, is almost entirely installed by troubled consumer electronics maker Thomson ‘ home gateways, IPTV middleware, VoIP and systems integration was all done by Thomson. Bouygues Telecom is one of the major French mobile operators with 9.7 million subscribers and rolled out in October something it calls the ‘Bbox’ gateway, from Thomson and its SmartVision service management platform and video-on-demand servers, as well as IP set-top boxes and its Cirpack VoIP platform. Thomson provided full design, engineering, integration, support and maintenance to the launch as well. This has led to a cellular operator, and one that…