SEATTLE (March 8, 2001)—iCARumba, an on-line site serving the automotive industry, announced an agreement with [email protected], a leading broadband Internet service provider, to offer users access to iCARumba´s network of over 17,000 online automotive Service Provider Members.
Users of www.excite.com/autos can connect to www.icarumba.com through a link on the site´s page. Through it, users can get a list of nearby service centers and schedule service appointments.
"This program will put 30,000,000 consumers within three Web pages of every iCARumba Member Shop," said Ken Brookings, iCARumba CEO. "Plus, each of those consumers can use the iCARumba on-line scheduling system to make an immediate appointment for service with any shop—even with a shop without Internet access."