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Number of Subscribers as of the End of April 2020

May 8, 2020

  SKY Perfect JSAT Holdings Inc. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, President: Eiichi Yonekura) announces the number of subscribers to the SKY PerfecTV! multichannel pay TV broadcast service and optical fiber based re-transmission service as of the end of April 2020. These services are operated by SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, President & Chief Executive Officer; Eiichi Yonekura), which is a fully-owned subsidiary of SKY Perfect JSAT Holdings Inc.

Number of Subscribers (Number of IC cards or IC chips*1)	New Subscribers	Churns	Monthly Churn Rate*3	Net Increase	Cumulative Total
Total for SKY PerfecTV!	52,037	83,541	2.6%	-31,504	3,138,802
SKY PerfecTV!*4	49,407	70,889	3.3%	-21,482	2,136,929
Premium Service*5	2,063	11,862	1.3%	-9,799	921,602
Premium Service HIKARI*6	567	790	1.0%	-223	80,271

 

Number of Contractors*2	New Subscribers	Churns	Monthly Churn Rate*3	Net Increase	Cumulative Total
Total for SKY PerfecTV!	36,009	71,545	2.7%	-35,536	2,591,848

 

Number of Subscribing Households	New Subscribers	Churns	Monthly Churn Rate*3	Net Increase	Cumulative Total
Optical Fiber Based Re-transmission Service	17,407	6,744	0.3%	10,663	2,346,319

 

*1 The number of IC cards or IC chips with pay-subscription agreements concluded.
*2 The number of subscribers with one or more subscription agreement. Multiple pay-subscription agreements by the same contractor are counted as one.
*3 Monthly churn rate (i.e., Churns during the current month/Total subscribers at the end of the previous month).
*4 110 degrees east longitude satellite broadcasts. It includes the number of subscribers for the optical fiber based re-transmission service.
*5 124 and 128 degrees east longitude satellite broadcasts.
*6 The service that provides broadcasts via optical lines.