1) The document discusses the need for a terrestrial broadband link across Asia, called the Longest International Open-access Network (LION), to connect the region to Europe and reduce costs of internet connectivity. 2) It notes that while submarine cables currently connect Asia and Europe, bandwidth remains much more expensive in Asia than Europe due to lack of competition from terrestrial routes. 3) The proposed LION would create an open-access terrestrial broadband network across Asia utilizing existing roadways like the Asian Highway network to provide competitive routes and lower latency connectivity between Asia and Europe.