The National Institute of Telecommunications is a modern research & development institution employing the team of scientists and experts with high competences in the field of telecommunications and information technology. An extremely quick pace of changes in those areas and a related emergence of the information civilization understood as a combination of the information society and the knowledge-based economy, constitute challenges the Institute is able to meet.

The National Institute of Telecommunications employs over 300 persons in its three centers: in Warsaw, Wrocław and Gdańsk. It has a stable economic position and manages to operate effectively in new market conditions and in a quickly changing environment. Undoubtedly it is possible due to a long-term tradition of the National Institute of Telecommunications and resulting experiences, highly qualified scientific and engineering staff and tangible resources. The National Institute of Telecommunications operates pursuant to the Act on Research & Development Units of July 25^th 1985 (with later amendments) and the Statutes of the National Institute of Telecommunications acknowledged by Ordinance No. 25 of the Minister of Infrastructure dated August 20^th, 2005.

National Institute of Telecommunications has had the status of State Research Institute since May 31^st, 2005.

Wojciech Hałka has been the General Director of the National Institute of Telecommunications since July 15^th, 2009.
Prof. dr Andrzej Zieliński is a chairman of the Scientific Council.