With time to spare, Globalive Wireless Management Corp.’s 400 or so newly trained call-centre employees were deployed last week to help charitable organizations in Calgary and Toronto as they await a ruling expected in the next few days on whether their company will be allowed to remain in business.

The issue The nation’s regulator, the CRTC, has ruled Globalive Wireless Management Corp. is controlled by foreigners and therefore ineligible to enter Canada’s $16-billion cellphone industry. The ruling follows an approval of Globalive’s ownership structure by Industry Canada. Tony Clement, the Industry Minister, is expected to decide on the matter this week.

Calgary employees of stalled wireless service provider Globalive Wireless Management Corp. are being kept on the payroll while they do volunteer “acts of kindness” around the city, the Toronto-based company says.

Anu Singer manages WIND Mobile’s call centre in Mississauga. It has about 100 employees. They finished weeks of training on Friday – the 13th – and haven’t answered a call since. It might have been a bad omen but for the CRTC, which pre-empted any possible bad luck from on high by dishing out some of its own, ensuring there are no customers to require any sort of service.

Globalive says it will keep 800 employees it hired for its new cellphone service, despite the fact the wireless business is facing difficulties getting started.

Globalive will keep 800 employees hired for its new cellphone service with some of them doing paid volunteer work, while waiting to see if it gets federal approval to launch its wireless business, the company said Wednesday.

Globalive will keep 800 employees hired for its new cellphone service with some of them doing paid volunteer work, while waiting to see if it gets federal approval to launch its wireless business, the company said Wednesday.

Hundreds of Canadians who expected to start new jobs in call centers and retail stores during the holiday shopping season are instead manning food banks and soup kitchens with blessing of their new employer.

A couple of days ago Chris Robbins, CCO (Chief Customer Officer) of WIND stated on their company blog that they will be hitting the streets and doing “Random Acts of Kindness”. I guess that day was yesterday as a bunch of pics have surfaced of some of the staff that has been hired.

Globalive is still looking to be a new, national cellphone player and its CEO said it will continue to test its network connections.