[4] Autonet Mobile was founded in 2005 by Sterling Pratz and Doug Moeller in Sonoma County, California.
[7][8][9] General Motors and Subaru began offering the Autonet Mobile service as a dealer-installed option in 2009[10] with Mercedes and the Chevrolet Silverado adopting the Wi-Fi device in 2012.
[11][12] The company partnered with Robert Bosch GmbH to manufacture an embedded telematics unit to interface with a vehicle's CAN bus.
[13] Autonet Mobile's Wi-Fi devices were sold to counties in Florida, Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, and Washington, D.C. for use in school buses, which prompted the development of internal content filters.
[14][15][16] In 2011, the Southside EMS department in Chatham County, Georgia equipped 35 ambulances with the Autonet Mobile Wi-Fi routers, allowing EMS technicians to file trip reports and share EKG information with hospitals while en route.