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Number of Subscribers as of the End of May 2020

Jun 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 May 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!	43,512	55,881	1.8%	-12,369	3,126,433
SKY PerfecTV!*4	41,100	44,780	2.1%	-3,680	2,133,249
Premium Service*5	2,003	10,278	1.1%	-8,275	913,327
Premium Service HIKARI*6	409	823	1.0%	-414	79,857

 

Number of Contractors*2	New Subscribers	Churns	Monthly Churn Rate*3	Net Increase	Cumulative Total
Total for SKY PerfecTV!	28,143	45,652	1.8%	-17,509	2,574,339

 

Number of Subscribing Households	New Subscribers	Churns	Monthly Churn Rate*3	Net Increase	Cumulative Total
Optical Fiber Based Re-transmission Service	12,335	4,737	0.2%	7,598	2,353,917

 

*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.