Internationalization process of a mobile operator: Case of Zain Telecom

This paper deals with the target country, market and timing factors potentially influencing the transaction costs of a company in its international ventures, which are used as transaction cost proxies, based on “Determinants of Mobile Network Operators' Choice of Cross-Border Entry Modes”. In addition, they are assigned as corresponding hypotheses in order to test their effect on Zain Telecom's entry mode choices. This model did not seem to...