THOMSON: BT Home Hub Passes the Three Million Shipment Mark

PARIS and LONDON, July 21 / MARKET WIRE/ -- Thomson (Euronext: 18453) (NYSE: TMS), the worldwide leader in video solutions, has announced shipments of BT Home Hub wireless gateways have passed the three million mark in fewer than two years since the devices were deployed by BT in the United Kingdom. This milestone also underscores the remarkable success of the service, with a rapid increase in subscribers opting for the higher value broadband packages in which the BT Home Hub was included. "The BT Home Hub has been developed through close co-operation between BT and Thomson. We have now rolled out a very advanced and extremely practical offering, bringing together a group of features that have proved really popular, including IPTV, video on demand, and the ability to automatically transfer calls from a mobile phone to the... [read full story]