Autonet Mobile | The Mobile Web | Wi-Fi for your Car

The San Francisco-based Internet overhaul bringer Autonet Mobile, the first provider of in-vehicle Internet navy, seems to be zooming along. The band’s router creates a Wi-Fi hotspot in and around the vehicle in which it’s installed—and even in the face of a significant monetary downturn, troupe CEO Sterling Pratz is optimistic about Autonet’s impending.

Pratz and Moeller contracted to use Verizon’s nationwide cellular tower organism and set up the group operations crux in a 5,000- square-foot warehouse in Santa Rosa. Pratz got auto dealers and stereo shops to begin promotion, generous them, a big chunk of the $499 early grasp fee. In Late 2007, he got Avis to present Wi-Fi ritual to its customers via a portable Autonet Mobile box that plugs into a vehicle’s cigarette lighter or a wall outlet.

From the opening, Pratz says, Autonet’s aim has plainly been to prolong the home Internet experience to the car. “We sincerely felt like the car was the last upholder of connectivity for the Internet,” he says. “And we also thought that once you put the Internet into the car, a full new network of applications and army and harvest would form.”