SKY PerfecTV! adds 11,000 subscribers in 1Q 2014
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation – Number of Subscribers as of the end of March 2014
SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, President& Chief Executive Officer: Shinji Takada) announced the number of subscribers*1 to SKY PerfecTV! as of the end of March 2014.
The company finished the quarter with a total of 3.717 million pay TV subscribers, 10,667 up from the 3.706 million recorded at the end of 2013.
New Re-registered Monthly Net Cumulative Subscribers Subscribers*2 Churn Churn Rate*3 Increase Total ----------- ------------- ------ ------------ -------- ---------- Total for SKY PerfecTV! 54,519 35,429 61,459 1.7% 28,489 3,716,604 SKY PerfecTV!*4 48,028 31,350 37,651 1.9% 41,727 2,055,572 Premium Service*5 5,402 4,067 22,506 1.4% -13,037 1,570,887 Of these, users of HD services*6 5,380 4,044 13,186 1.1% 8,271 1,261,025 Premium Service HIKARI*7 1,089 12 1,302 1.4% -201 90,145
*1 Number of subscribers who concluded a pay-subscription agreement and have been actually paying subscription fees.
*2 Number of individuals who concluded a new pay-subscription agreement within one year of cancellation and have been actually paying subscription fees.
*3 The following formula is used to calculate the monthly churn rate.
Monthly Churn Rate = Churns during the current month/Total subscribers at the end of the previous month
*4 East longitude 110 degree satellite broadcasts. It includes the cumulative total (123,249) for the re-transmission service based on the optical fibers provided by OptiCast Inc. (Merged by SKY Perfect JSAT on April 1, 2014).
*5 It includes the standard definition (SD) services.
*6 Broadcasts using H.264/MPEG4 AVC compression.
The number of subscribers using Premium Service tuners supporting high-definition broadcasts. This month, 12,033 customers made the transition from the standard definition service. This figure is incorporated in the net increase and the cumulative total.
*7 The standard definition (SD) services ended at the end of June 2013.
* Number of households connected to Premium Service HIKARI is 1,640,632. (as of the end of March 2014)
The number means the number of households to which we provide the broadcasting service (retransmission or multichannel broadcasting service) to be billed at the end of the month. This number does not include the multichannel broadcasting services provided by utilizing the available bandwidth in the optical fiber network possessed by Cable City Yokohama.
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