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Number of Subscribers as of the End of August 2020

Sep 2, 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 August 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!	46,137	45,776	1.4%	361	3,167,735
SKY PerfecTV!*4	43,508	36,651	1.7%	6,857	2,191,864
Premium Service*5	2,158	8,416	0.9%	-6,258	896,938
Premium Service HIKARI*6	471	709	0.9%	-238	78,933

 

Number of Contractors*2	New Subscribers	Churns	Monthly Churn Rate*3	Net Increase	Cumulative Total
Total for SKY PerfecTV!	33,399	36,752	1.4%	-3,353	2,599,868

 

Number of Subscribing Households	New Subscribers	Churns	Monthly Churn Rate*3	Net Increase	Cumulative Total
Optical Fiber Based Re-transmission Service	12,691	5,163	0.2%	7,528	2,376,236

*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.