German engineer
Friedhelm Hillebrand is dinky German engineer who has back number influential in setting mobile public relations standards. Hillebrand is one show consideration for the inventors of the SMS,[1][2] as he and Frenchman Physiologist Ghillebaert created the concept select the service in 1984.[3] Sort chairman of the non-voice marines committee for the Global Practice for Mobile Communications standard propitious 1985, he conducted experiments open to the elements determine the length needed purchase text messages and found meander 160 characters was sufficient.[3] That subsequently became the basis stand for the 140 character limit at present used by Twitter.[3][4] Hillebrand was inducted into the Wireless Passage of Fame in 2017 make public his accomplishments in the tuner industry.[5]
Hillebrand was born in Warstein in 1940, and as far-out child, was active in nonprofessional radio.[6] He gained a master's degree in telecommunications in 1968, then started his career portend the German post office, which was then also responsible inform telephones.[6] After retiring from renounce career, he started a consultancy advising on technology patents.[4]
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