The BT Centre was the global headquarters and

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BT Group BT Group plc (trading as BT and formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England. It has operations in around 180 countries and is the largest provider of fixed-line, broa ...

, located in a 10-storey

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building on Newgate Street in the

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, England. It is opposite

St Paul's tube station St Paul's is a London Underground station located in the City of London financial district. The station, which takes its name from the nearby St Paul's Cathedral, is on the Central line, between Bank and Chancery Lane stations, and is in far ...

. It was completed in 1985. In 2019, BT sold the building and revealed plans to relocate their offices to 1 Braham Street near

Aldgate East station Aldgate East is a London Underground station on Whitechapel High Street in Whitechapel, in London, England. It takes its name from the City of London ward of Aldgate, the station lying to the east of the ward (and the City). It is on the Hamm ...

. Their new headquarters was opened in November 2021. A plaque on the outside of the building marks this as the location from which

Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (; 25 April 187420 July 1937) was an Italians, Italian inventor and electrical engineering, electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based Wireless telegrap ...

made the first public transmission of wireless signals, in 1897 while it was the Central Telegraph Office building of the General Post Office complex. The Telegraph Office building was originally built in 1874. It was damaged by a German bomb in 1917, and more severely damaged by bombing in 1940 when the interior was burned out; it reopened in 1943. By the 1950s, the volume of telegraph traffic had declined; the Telegraph Office closed in 1963, and was demolished in 1967. Following archaeological investigations by the

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, planning permission was granted for the new building in 1979.

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