ABSTRACT
The globalization of the telecommunications market has led to the internationalization of the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs). Internationalization is defined as the process by which a firm expands its economic activities beyond its national boundaries (Dicken, 1992). With the limits the RBOCs are facing in the United States as a result of government regulations and the saturation of their domestic markets, RBOCs are investing abroad to expand their markets. As a result of the current phenomenon of privatization in the telecommunications sector, the RBOCs have been able to enter new markets.
