EU states consider more generous mobile phone roaming allowances

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Mobile telecoms firms in Europe will have to offer their customers at least 100 megabytes (MB) of data a year at domestic rates when travelling within the European Union, according to an EU document seen by Reuters. EU member states and members of the European Parliament are in the final stage of negotiations on a package aimed at slashing mobile roaming fees and also setting net neutrality rules on how telecom operators handle the traffic on their networks