New Delhi, Feb 25: In an effort to identify cross-subsidisation practices and investigate cases of predatory pricing, TRAI today made it mandatory for operators to submit accounting statements separately for every service, for each licenced area. “The Telecom regulatory Authority of India has issued today a regulation -- The Reporting System on Accounting Separation Regulation -- to call for audited reports on separated accounts," a TRAI statement said here. This means that the service providers would now be required to submit accounting statement separately for every service and product/network service for each of the licenced areas. The reporting on separated accounts is applicable to all licenced telecom service providers who are offering services like basic, national long distance service, international long distance service, cellular service, internet service, VSAT, radio paging service, public mobile radio trunk service and Global Mobile Personal Communication service., it said. "The accounting separation reports would help TRAI to monitor and measure financial performance of individual telecom products/network services and information about disaggregated costs to the level of network elements," TRAI said. Bureau Report