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Telecommunications company Telstra and Swedish telco vendor Ericsson have completed an upgrade to King Island’s mobile network infrastructure providing connectivity and claiming what they call “a world-first” and achieving a tenfold capacity boost for the island with an over-water microwave telecommunications link with a throughput capacity of 9.8Gbps with 99.99% availability.

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.

Telstra is set to complete a major upgrade of the King Island transmission between the island and Tasmania that provides the landline phones, internet and 3G mobile services.