The State Secretariat for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure, under the superior direction of the person who holds the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Civil Service, shall exercise the functions provided for in Article 62 of Law 40/2015 of 1 October, within the scope of its competences, relating to the policy of boosting the telecommunications sector, audiovisual communication services, the deployment of infrastructures and services to ensure the growth of connectivity.

To this end, it is responsible for the promotion and regulation of the telecommunications and audiovisual media services sectors, for dialogue with the professional, industrial and academic sectors and for coordination or cooperation between ministries and other public administrations on these matters, without prejudice to the powers conferred on other ministerial departments, in particular the Ministry of Culture and the National Commission on Markets and Competition.

Secretario de Estado de Telecomunicaciones e Infraestructuras Digitales: D. Antonio Hernando Vera