Mobile wireless access point geolocation services proxy for mobile devices

A mobile wireless access point comprising:

• at least one processor, memory and a cellular radio disposed within a housing, the cellular radio providing a broadband data connection to the Internet;
• a wireless router coupled to the processor, memory and cellular radio within the housing and configured to generate and maintain a wireless hotspot within a geographic distance of the housing and to route data from the wireless hotspot to the Internet over the broadband data connection;
• and,
• a geolocation proxy module executing in the memory of the housing, the module comprising program code enabled upon execution by the at least one processor in the housing to respond to a request from a computing device communicatively linked to the mobile wireless access point through the wireless hotspot for geolocation data, from the mobile wireless access point, to obtain geolocation data determined by at least one location determining component disposed within the wireless access point for the mobile wireless access point and to transmit the obtained geolocation data to the computing device over the wireless hotspot for use by the computing device in acquiring location based services from a remote endpoint server over the Internet.