{"id":2633,"date":"2013-02-07T15:37:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T15:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2013-02-07T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T15:37:19","slug":"digital-region-pick-new-operator-to-run-its-south-yorkshire-uk-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/digital-region-pick-new-operator-to-run-its-south-yorkshire-uk-network.html","title":{"rendered":"Digital Region Picks New Operator to Run its South Yorkshire UK Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The troubled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalregion.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Region<\/a> (DRL) broadband network, which currently reaches 80% of homes and businesses in <strong>South Yorkshire<\/strong> (England), has this afternoon selected <strong>Bouygues Energies and Services<\/strong> (<strong>ETDE SA<\/strong>) as its &#8220;<em>preferred bidder<\/em>&#8221; to take over the running of their business.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The move means that <strong>BTWholesale<\/strong> is considerably less likely to win the tender, although there&#8217;s still a slim chance that they could sweep the deal out from under BYES feet. Sadly the press release doesn&#8217;t go into any further detail.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>David Cowell, CEO of Digital Region, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The Board were impressed by the high quality of the submissions and are grateful for the diligent and comprehensive approach of both bidders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The process is still ongoing and DRL will continue to negotiate with BYES to agree a contract ready for execution in the first quarter of 2013<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Digital Region&#8217;s most recent financial statements, for the year ended 31st March 2012, revealed that the network had stacked up an operating loss for the year of \u00a314,285k (\u00a314m), before exceptional costs of \u00a362,936k (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/01\/still-no-buyer-for-digital-region-in-south-yorkshire-uk-as-losses-grow.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), and was thus continuing to <strong>hoover up public money<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The eventual bid winner will be accountable for the network\u2019s revenues, costs and risks. The COO of ISP <a href=\"http:\/\/ask4.com\" target=\"_blank\">ASK4<\/a>, <strong>Ross Bray<\/strong>, recently told ISPreview.co.uk that the new owner of DRL must help it become a \u201c<em>credible<\/em>\u201d and \u201c<em>competitive .. alternative to the standard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> product set<\/em>\u201d if it is to survive (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask4-coo-says-yorkshire-digital-region-network-must-be-credible-bt-alternative.html\" target=\"_blank\">read our interview<\/a>). A few extra subscribers wouldn&#8217;t hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The troubled Digital Region (DRL) broadband network, which currently reaches 80% of homes and businesses in South Yorkshire (England), has this afternoon selected Bouygues Energies and Services (ETDE SA) as its &#8220;preferred bidder&#8221; to take over the running of their business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-digital-region"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Digital Region Picks New Operator to Run its South Yorkshire UK Network - 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