Bernard Ghillebaert

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bernard Ghillebaert
Occupation	Business Executive
Date Of Birth	Jan 17, 1952(1952-01-17)
Age	72
Birthplace	Strasbourg
Country	France
Horoscope	Capricorn

Bernard Ghillebaert Biography

Bernard Ghillebaert is one of the most popular and richest Business Executive who was born on January 17, 1952 in Strasbourg, France. Bernard Ghillebaert (born 17 January 1952) is a French engineer in the field of telecommunications and business and the former Chief Executive Officer of Orange UK. He is famously known for creating the standards for text messaging in 1985.

Alongside the help of German engineer Friedhelm Hillebrand, Hillebrand created the specifications to text messages in the year 1984. This resulted in February 1985, with the GSM (Groupe Special Mobile) standard, which is also called Global System for Mobile Communications for the Short Message Service (SMS) and is now called text messaging.

In November 2004 he became the Chief Executive of Orange UK, staying until November 2008.

At a conference in late October 1984 at the end of October 1984, the French component of the DF900 project made a suggestion for an enhanced paging system, which would include the dissemination of alphanumeric message to mobile users, with acknowledgement capabilities. The messaging system will be two-way, in contrast to the paging systems. On the 12th of November, 1984 at an event in London the idea was simply the transmission of brief alphanumeric messages, with acknowledgement capabilities.

Bernard Ghillebaert Net Worth

Bernard Ghillebaert is one of the richest Business Executive from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bernard Ghillebaert 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Following the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) standards were fixed in the late 1970s there was talk of creating an open digital mobile communications network. Mobitex is the Public Access Mobile Radio network standard, was developed in 1981 and launched in the late 1980s. The collaboration program with France with Germany was named S900 (from the 900Mhz band that was analog) and was anticipated to be operational in the year 1986. The decision was made to develop an electronic mobile phone network GSM that year and that it would be operational before the close of the decade. A digital prototype called DF900 was operational prior to when GSM was fully operational. This new GSM system will include an paging radio service. The European-wide Eurosignal Paging service was in operation since. Germany launched its C-Netz analog cellphone network the year 1985 that was based on the C450 standard. It had an electronic switching system as well as digital control channels. It also could have also implemented the short data message system.

He was a member of France Telecom in 1976. From 1982 onwards, he headed the GSM standardisation and development projects to France Telecom. In 1988, he was GSM programme director at France Telecom Mobile.

He was the Chief Executive of Mobistar from 1995, a Belgian mobile phone network.

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