SKY PerfecTV! loses 95,000 subscribers in 2013

SKY Perfect JSAT Group has released its Earning Results Briefing for 3Q/2013, for the quarter ending December 31, 2013.

The company finished the year with a total of 3.706 million pay TV subscribers, 95 thousand down from 3.801 million at the end of 2012, and down 69 thousand from 3.775 million at the end of the previous quarter.

Multichannel pay TV subscribers (thousands)

                                                            FY2012/13          FY2013/2014
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                                               1Q     2Q     3Q     4Q     1Q     2Q     3Q 
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Total for SKY PerfecTV!                     3,831  3,819  3,801  3,829  3,797  3,775  3,706
  SKY PerfecTV! (Former SKY PerfecTV! e2)*  1,812  1,847  1,879  1,963  1,995  2,014  1,998
  Premium Service**                         1,907  1,860  1,812  1,762  1,712  1,671  1,617
    High Definition                           708    804    878  1,032  1,128  1,179  1,241
  Premium Service HIKARI***                   113    112    109    104     90     91     91

* SKY PerfecTV! (Former SKY PerfecTV! e2) uses the satellite at 110°E.
** Premium Service uses satellites at 124 and 128°E.
*** Premium Service HIKARI is delivered over optical fibre