Dial telephone service for Smith Island, an isolated community in Chesapeake bay

The utilization of very-high-frequency (vhf) and ultrahigh-frequency (uhf) radio facilities to provide short-haul toll, rural subscriber, or other point-to-point communication systems has answered the demands for modern telephone facilities in small isolated locations. In October 1957, The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland combined two radio-carrier terminals and associated central office equipment to provide three communities on Smith Island, Md., as shown on Fig. 1, with the latest dial telephone service.