(7) A rural telecommunications carrier serving less than 50,000 access lines in this Commonwealth making an election pursuant to paragraph (1) and filing its amended network modernization plan with the commission pursuant to subsection (e) shall be granted by the commission a suspension of section 251(c)(2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) obligations under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This suspension of obligations shall expire December 31, 2008, unless extended by the commission. Should the commission, following a hearing, determine that the rural telecommunications carrier has failed to timely meet its commitments pursuant to this paragraph, the suspension of obligations shall expire upon entry of the commission order making such determination. Expiration of the suspension of obligations shall not impact the rural telephone company exemption of the rural telecommunications carrier under section 251(f)(1) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
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