British Telecommunications Plc will launch a full-scale video-on-demand service rather than just trials as soon as this autumn, the Evening Standard believes – but the only beneficiary will be the denizens of the oh-so-frugal Borough of Westminster – where British Telecom of course has the Westminster Cable Ltd cable television franchise – it makes sense, since the company did seem to be spending rather a lot of money with Oracle Corp and nCube Corp if it was just playing around.