This message is sent to Verizon’s retirees on behalf of Trinidad Aguirre, Senior Vice President/General Manager – Texas Region.

In Texas, the magic number is “16.” That’s the total number of Texas communities that will have a new choice in television entertainment, when the first wave of customers in Rowlett and Highland Village become eligible to receive FiOS TV service on March 27.

Thanks to the first-of-its-kind state-issued video franchise, we are now able to offer video service to a growing base of customers in Carrollton, Colleyville, Coppell, Flower Mound, north Fort Worth, Grapevine, Irving, Keller, Lewisville, Murphy, Sachse, Southlake, Westlake and Wylie.

Around the country, the magic number is “6.” That’s how many states in which FiOS TV is now being offered. Customers in Virginia (Herndon, Reston and surrounding parts of Fairfax County); New York (Nyack, South Nyack, and Massapequa Park); Maryland (Clarksville, Columbia and Ellicott City); Massachusetts (Reading and Woburn); Florida (Temple Terrace, parts of southern Manatee County and parts of Hillsborough County); and California (Beaumont and Murrieta) are unplugging their cable boxes and satellite dishes to experience the amazingly sharp, all-digital programming that FiOS TV offers.

Here are a few more FiOS TV numbers you might be interested in:

9 – The number of additional Texas communities to receive FiOS TV service by year-end
25 – The number of high-definition (HD) channels offered through FiOS TV
$34.95 – The price of our Expanded Basic package, which delivers 180 video and music channels
300 – The number of new jobs that we’ll have added by mid-year; including 200 fiber technicians, 50 Fiber Solutions Center representatives and 50 Dallas Sales Center representatives
350 – The number of channels currently offered through FiOS TV (with more on the way!)
2,200 – The number of On Demand titles available to customers now, increasing to over 3,500 titles in the next several months
400,000 – The number of Texas households that will have FiOS TV availability by year-end 1 Million – the number of potential Texas FiOS TV viewers by year-end
19.8 Million – The number of feet that our fiber-optic network spans in Texas