Globalive, which planned to open a call centre and create 200 jobs in Peterborough, remains committed to the city, a cochairman of the company said yesterday.

Tony Clement, the Industry Minister, plans to review a controversial regulatory decision that has stalled plans by Globalive Wireless Management Corp. to establish a fourth Canadian cellphone carrier, but has yet to decide whether to refer it to Cabinet.

A government is a big complicated apparatus, and sometimes parts of it work at cross-purposes. That seems to be what happened this week when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ruled that Globalive Wireless Corp. is not Canadian enough to run a cell-phone network in this country. Much of Globalive’s capital comes from an Egyptian company.

Egypt-based Orascom Telecom said it would support Globalive, in which it said it had an indirect stake, to operate in Canada after a ruling Globalive said would delay the launch of its service.

Industry Minister Tony Clement said Friday he is reviewing a CRTC decision preventing wireless challenger Globalive from entering the Canadian market, despite Industry Canada’s opposing views.

If telecom investors were prone to break out into song, the theme on the markets yesterday might have been Ding Dong the Witch is Dead. But observers say the celebrations were premature. “Frankly, I don’t think it’s as good as the market thinks,” said Greg MacDonald, an analyst with National Bank Financial Inc. In a report yesterday, Mr. MacDonald downgraded Rogers Communications Inc. shares.

You can’t get much more Canadian than Winnipeg. It’s smack-dab in the centre of the country, it gave us Burton Cummings, and it’s home to Manitoba Telecom Services, the company that just might solve a thorny Canadian content problem for Globalive.

Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement will review a decision by the federal communications regulator that said start-up wireless carrier Globalive did not comply with Canada’s foreign ownership rules, a spokesman for the minister said on Friday.

Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement says he is reviewing a regulator’s decision that Globalive Wireless Management doesn’t meet national ownership rules, and that the government still wants to create more competition in the industry.

Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement said he’s reviewing a decision by the nation’s telecommunications regulator that blocks Globalive Wireless Management from entering the wireless phone market.