Employer-paid group-term life insurance coverage in excess of $50,000 This fringe benefit is subject to the withholding of Social Security and Medicare taxes (FICA) only. Though the amount is included in gross wages, federal and state income tax withholding is not required.
To get the answer to that question, we need to look back more than a century. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. And then in 1900, on December 23 on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., an inventor named Reginald Fessenden accomplished a remarkable feat: He made the first wireless telephone call.
Things have certainly changed a bit since then... By Adrian Lee. Martin Cooper, the father of the cell phone, with the first cell phone he used 30 years ago. The first mobile telephone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper, a former Motorola inventor, who is known as the father of the cellphone.y 1990 there were a million users. The first mobile phone call made in the UK was in 1985 when comedian Ernie Wise called from London to Vodafone's offices in Newbury, Berkshire. Mobile phones went on sale here two years later costing Â£1,200 each and became the mustâhave gadget of the yuppie.