One of the leading universities in Ukraine in the field of communications in general and telecommunications and information technology in particular.

It was created by reorganizing the O.S. Popov Odesa National Academy of Communications (ONAC) and the Odesa State Academy of Technical Regulation and Quality (OSATRQ).

The official date of foundation is 1920, when the Hrynko Odesa Higher Electricity College of High Currents was founded on the basis of the Higher Courses of Telegraph Mechanics.