iTWire Monday, 26 April 2021 11:00 Telstra is building a better network and transforming connectivity on King Island Shares No, it's not an island full of Elvis Presley impersonators, but an island that's part of Tasmania, and it will benefit from an upgrade project that Telstra says will transform connectivity on the island, improve mobile coverage, boost capacity and data speeds and strengthen network resilience. King Island. It's a beautiful island in the Bass Strait of Australia, and it's about to get even better with improved mobile coverage, more mobile base stations, some 4GX upgrades, 37km of new fibre optic cable, up to six times more bandwidth and capacity, a new radio link and more, with work to start before the end of 2021.