Europe Likely to Act to Trim Charges for Phone Roaming.

BARCELONA -- The European telecommunications commissioner said on Monday that she probably would seek new regulations to end the high charges Europeans face when using data services on smartphones outside their home countries. Speaking here on the opening day of the Mobile World Congress, the industry's largest convention, the commissioner, Neelie Kroes, said that limits on the fees operators charge each other for mobile data roaming, which were enacted in 2007, had failed to significantly lower costs to consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]