Pursuant to the Pipeline Safety Act of 2002, the FCC has mandated that all telecommunications network carriers make available by March 2007 811 as a free dial in phone number for digging site information.Some states and cities already have their own service, but this will be the first time it goes national. Vonage will be the first provider to offer 811 as a national service.In case you’ve never heard of this before, here’s how it works: If you are adding an addition to your home, installing a pool or just digging a ditch in your backyard, you dial 811 and that connects you to what is called a local one call center. The center in turn connects to the local utility company in the area and lays out the location of pipes and or cables underground.It is nice to know that my neighbor won’t be cutting any power lines that turn off my air-conditioning in August or worse still hitting a gas pipeline. But, what if my neighbor is a local terrorist? Then what? You never know what he might do with that info. In fact, he never says good morning to me, shouldn’t that tell me something? Now he is armed with information some governments actually try to keep secret. It is a crazy world we live in an having to worry about these things just makes it crazier still. Technology Industry