For many of the countries which did have such data, the data became available only from 2007 onwards. The "superhighway" is a continent-wide meshed network of terrestrial optical fibre which is aimed at increasing the availability and affordability of broadband Internet across Asia and the Pacific. Only the Pacific subregion was missing data for most countries and territories, in most of those economies, while flights operate internationally and domestically, they do not have their own airlines to report such information.