The Nokia 6090 vehicle-mounted phone has been ruggedly designed to last a long time and handle the often-demanding in-vehicle environment - and has passed endurance tests accordingly. With normal use, the Nokia 6090 phone should easily last as long as the life of a professional or a private vehicle. While it is true that the Nokia 6090 phone operates on GSM 900 MHz networks and the new wireless communication standards, 2,5G and 3G networks will be introduced in the coming 3 years, GSM will remain broadly available during these introduction times and later. For reference, GSM was commercially launched in 1991; previous generation one analog phones still worked in parallel 9 years long, until 31-Dec-2000.