The Mercury News

See How Sail Internet is Making a Difference for Local Communitie­s

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For the past 6 years, local start-up Sail Internet has been addressing the problems of consumer choice and access to high-speed internet. In areas where the big names dominate, Sail creates choice by bringing competitiv­e high-speed internet with unlimited data, requiring no contract, with flat pricing.

A larger — and somewhat surprising — problem in the Bay Area is the lack of access to affordable, highspeed internet. Sail brings service to many mobile home parks that have traditiona­lly had little choice in internet providers. Recently, the company worked with Gardner Family Health to install the infrastruc­ture needed to serve Summerset Mobile Estates in Alviso, CA who previously had no option beyond DSL.

With fiber at its core, Sail uses a mixture of fixed wireless and other technologi­es to deliver high-speed internet to businesses, singlefami­ly homes, and multi-unit complexes in the San Francisco Bay area and San Diego area. While growing rapidly in San Jose and other cities, Sail looks for businesses and residentia­l homes willing to host equipment that can broadcast a signal to residents nearby.

Where available, Sail brings a fiber connection directly to homes and buildings resulting in gigabit internet speeds. Sail Gigabit service is now available at select multi-unit residentia­l communitie­s and multiple businesses in the Bay Area.

Sail was founded in 2015 by experts and innovators from the internet access industry. Led by Kevin Fisher, PhD, Stanford University, former Engineerin­g VP at 2Wire and Ikanos and George Ginis, PhD, Stanford University, former Engineerin­g and Marketing VP at ASSIA, Sail requires no contracts, has no data caps for customer use, and is net neutral. Sail’s speeds exceed most ISPs’ basic packages while offering competitiv­e pricing.

Sail’s speeds and coverage areas are detailed on their website at sailintern­et.com.

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