David Holt, Chief Executive Officer Digital Region Limited presented at NextGen 09 in Leeds on 16 and 17 November 2009

1. Digital Region
NextGen 09 Conference
David Holt
Chief Executive Officer
Digitally Transforming South Yorkshire

2. Digital Region Strategy
First major regional 'Superfast Broadband' in the UK,
bringing:
- removing newdigital businesses andjobs into the region
attracting access to divide
improved the investment and new public sector services
Digitally Transforming South Yorkshire

3. The Digital Region Project
! One of the largest public sector - led open broadband
initiatives in the world to transform South Yorkshire
! Barnsley, Doncaster, Sheffield
and Rotherham
!1.3 million citizens, 546,000 homes
and 40,000 businesses
Digitally Transforming South Yorkshire

4. Transformational Agenda
Social
Economic
Digitally Transforming South Yorkshire

5. South Yorkshire Coverage
97% Coverage
500,000
450,000
400,000
Service 350,000
Coverage 300,000
250,000
200,000
150,000
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Digitally Transforming South Yorkshire

6. The Network
Business
Barnsley Sheffield
Core
Exchanges
Doncaster Rotherham
Homes
Digitally Transforming South Yorkshire

7. Next Gen Service Environment
!Multimedia Communications
! Enhanced services
! Converged Communications
& Entertainment
Digitally Transforming South Yorkshire

8. Next Gen Business Dynamic
! Need significant download and upload speeds to be
well placed for future applications
! For businesses:
! For the public sector:
! For households:
Digitally Transforming South Yorkshire

9. Digital Hype or Digital Region!!!
ACCESS SPEED
UK TODAY DIGITAL REGION
Download
Typically 25 Mbits/s
Average 3.6 Mbit/s speed
Upload
Typically 10 Mbit/s
Average overall 0.4 Mbit/s
Digitally Transforming South Yorkshire

10. The Competitive Advantage
! Digital Region will deliver a
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broadband access which is
!'more than- capable for
future applications
! We will deliver this across
the entire region
Digitally Transforming South Yorkshire

11. Implications of this initiative
Skills and Learning Equality of Opportunity
Healthy and Caring Achieving Excellence
Safer, Cleaner and Greener Protecting the Environment
A Prosperous Place where people want to invest
Digitally Transforming South Yorkshire

12. The Digital Region
Thank You
Digitally Transforming South Yorkshire