page_title: National Network Management Centre
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: National Network Management Centre / History
caption_attribution_description: English: BT management centre building Situated by the A495 near Oswestry.
context_page_description: The National Network Management Centre is the main national network operations centre of BT Group, situated in Shropshire.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Side entrance from the east in 2008
exif: {}