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Number of Subscribers as of the End of January 2020

Feb 4, 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 January 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!	39,146	58,588	1.8%	-19,442	3,152,708
SKY PerfecTV!*4	37,055	46,796	2.2%	-9,741	2,127,334
Premium Service*5	1,696	10,974	1.2%	-9,278	944,341
Premium Service HIKARI*6	395	818	1.0%	-423	81,033

 

Number of Contractors*2	New Subscribers	Churns	Monthly Churn Rate*3	Net Increase	Cumulative Total
Total for SKY PerfecTV!	26,471	48,189	1.8%	-21,718	2,619,930

 

 

Number of Subscribing Households	New Subscribers	Churns	Monthly Churn Rate*3	Net Increase	Cumulative Total
Optical Fiber Based Re-transmission Service	12,042	4,810	0.2%	7,232	2,309,657

 

*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.