The National Network Management Centre is the main national network operations centre of BT Group, situated in Shropshire.
History
BT moved to the countryside site in the 1980s. The NMC is also known as the Customer Experience and Management Centre, the International Network Management Centre (INMC), or the National Control Centre (NCC). The BT Global Media Network delivers television content around the world. BT Retail split into BT Consumer and BT Business.
The transformation of BT's network to becoming digital began in 1985, and finished in July 1990. BT's Worldwide Network Management Centre at Oswestry opened on 5 September 1990, at a cost of £4m.
The site appeared on the BBC Two documentary Genius of Invention.[1]
Structure
It is situated on the A495, within a few hundred yards of the road's western terminus at the roundabout with the A5, in the west of the parish of Whittington.