The FCC has opened up the petition on Post-Disaster Communications that Jeff Pulver and Tom Evslin submitted earlier this month for Public Comments. Jeff’s got the low-down, and I agree with them that the encumbent communications providers could relatively easily implement either universal emergency voice mail for all customers or provide expedited local number porting to an alternate service provider in times of infrastructure failure, and that this could go a long way towards improving communications and ease locating friends and family during crises. Here’s your chance to let the FCC know how you feel about this idea.