Current Status, Challenges, and Solutions to Improve Wired/Wireless Fixed/Mobile Broadband Internet

In this paper, we raise five questions and find solutions: What are the positive and negative effects of broadband Internet?Which type of Internet access is preferable?Which one of them needs more attention?How much and what kind of developments affect the Internet?What solutions are there to improve the current situation?First, fourteen advantages and positive effects of broadband Internet in every corner of life are presented.Second, fifty criteria are extracted for comparing wired and wireless broadband Internet.The third task, they are compared by describing the characteristics of optical fiber-based fixed and fifth-generation-based fixed/mobile broadband Internet access.Fourth, issues that directly and/or indirectly affect the global development of broadband Internet are outlined.The fifth task elicits twenty items on balanced sustainable development and strategic planning of broadband Internet.Finally, we propose ten solutions to improve the current state of global broadband Internet, reduce the digital divide in the world, and decrease the negative social effects of broadband Internet.