Patent ID: 7805169

Claim:
A method for facilitating hands free mobile communications from within an automotive vehicle, the method comprising: provisioning mobile phone technology within the automotive vehicle wherein the mobile phone technology is integral with a microphone and a speaker within the automotive vehicle and wherein the mobile phone technology includes means for reading a SIM of a subscriber; providing means interfaced with the mobile phone technology for receiving the SIM of the subscriber; receiving and reading the SIM of the subscriber within the automotive vehicle to authenticate the subscriber on a mobile network; and activating the mobile phone technology; wherein the SIM is integrated with a key fob having an integrated key operatively associated with the SIM and wherein receiving the SIM comprises providing an ignition switch operatively associated with a SIM card reader of the mobile phone technology, the ignition switch operative to receive the key and therein facilitate reading of the SIM, the key fob including contacts separate from the key, the contacts in electrical connection with the SIM, the contacts interfacing the SIM with the SIM card reader to enable reading of the SIM.