Name: Jeremiah Becker: this means you can only collect the tax from Cordova Telecom, Cordova Wireless, and Copper Valley. All the other phones— AT&T, FirstNet, Verizon, GCI— you cannot collect the tax from because they are not in the local exchange. So collectively, between CTC, Cordova Wireless, and Copper Valley, there's roughly 2,570 local lines, which equates to, if you did the maximum tax, $62,000 a year.
Uploaded: 2026-10-22T04:48:25+00:00
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Description: this means you can only collect the tax from Cordova Telecom, Cordova Wireless, and Copper Valley. All the other phones— AT&T, FirstNet, Verizon, GCI— you cannot collect the tax from because they are not in the local exchange. So collectively, between CTC, Cordova Wireless, and Copper Valley, there's roughly 2,570 local lines, which equates to, if you did the maximum tax, $62,000 a year.

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Jeremiah Becker

65:29 - 66:01

“this means you can only collect the tax from Cordova Telecom, Cordova Wireless, and Copper Valley. All the other phones— AT&T, FirstNet, Verizon, GCI— you cannot collect the tax from because they are not in the local exchange. So collectively, between CTC, Cordova Wireless, and Copper Valley, there's roughly 2,570 local lines, which equates to, if you did the maximum tax, $62,000 a year.”

Speaker: Jeremiah Becker
Timestamp: 65:29 – 66:01
Transcript: Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting
Community: Alaska News
Location: Cordova
Captured at: October 21, 2026

From the transcript

It is a tax—. Can only be applied to local exchange carriers within the municipality city limits. So this means you can only collect the tax from Cordova Telecom, Cordova Wireless, and Copper Valley. All the other phones— AT&T, FirstNet, Verizon, GCI— you cannot collect the tax from because they are not in the local exchange. So collectively, between CTC, Cordova Wireless, and Copper Valley, there's roughly 2,570 local lines, which equates to, if you did the maximum tax, $62,000 a year.

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