Controversy over the installation of the repeater of the Iliad telephone company , in the Lì Russi district of Castelsardo, a structure that has raised several doubts and questions among citizens. But the Municipality reassures: «It is important to clarify that, according to current legislation, repeaters are considered as real primary urbanization works and must therefore be treated in the same way as roads, sewers, public lighting, and require essential authorizations and checks".
The works were requested and carried out by Iliad , for the positioning of an antenna on land owned by private citizens. The checks required by law were carried out, among others, by the Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment of Sardinia (Arpas), which issued a favorable opinion underlining that «they were carried out to verify and integrate those presented by the proponent himself, forecast calculations of the "field values", foreseen by the project in question, and it has been ascertained that these do not exceed the limit values of attention and the quality objectives set by the legislation in force". A favorable opinion was also issued by the Regional Landscape Protection Service of Sassari which specified: «The height, compared to the surrounding area, is well absorbed while it remains quite evident in the views that, from the south, look at the ancient village, without interfering excessively."
The administration has no power to interfere in the choice of the place of installation of telephone repeaters, nor does it have the power to establish distance, safety and height limits - underlines the mayor Antonio Maria Capula - as these limitations, placed to safeguard health of citizens from the risks of electromagnetism, are the exclusive competence of the State as provided for by the Gasparri decree of 2002, which granted greater freedom for the installation of mobile telephone repeaters on the national territory". Several repeaters are also already present in the town centre, both in the historic center and on the bell tower of the new church and in other highly populated places such as the hamlet of Lu Bagnu where several have been positioned in several places, including in the center of the hamlet.