Mobile-network has not yet reached around 50,000 villages across the country. There are many locations in the Northeast, Naxal-hit states, Andaman and Nicobar-Islands and Lakshadweep where mobile-network has not reached yet, Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said in LS. "We have never claimed that mobile-network has reached all over the country. There are around 50,000 villages where mobile-network has not reached," he added.