Günter Kleindl

OVE, Austria - Standardisation Manager

Dr. Günter Kleindl has been a key member of the DECT standards community since 1987, when he joined ECTEL TCS and started to participate in CEPT RES3, what then became ETSI RES3 after the foundation of ETSI. In 1989 Günter moved to France for two years to lead the ETSI Project Team 10, who developed the DECT base standard that was first published in 1992.

Günter has spent over 35 years of his career in wireless communications and has supported the development of ETSI standards and needs of the industry in other standards bodies and industry fora. As TC chair and technical expert, he played the key role in the submissions to ITU-R.

In the year 2000 he managed the approval of DECT as a member of the IMT-2000 family and in the year 2022 he achieved the ITU-R approval of the new DECT-2020 standard as an IMT-2020 technology. A well-respected member of the wireless communications community globally, he is probably the person who has done the most to the continuing world-wide success of the DECT standards.