# Why Arwain?

> Cardiff leads the UK with innovation, creativity and dynamic engineering as proven by our previous efforts in delivering free Wi-Fi to the city and surrounding

- Type: Community update
- Community: [The Things Network Cardiff](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/cardiff/)
- Author: Richard Wenner
- Published: 2016-09-18
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/cardiff/post/why-arwain

Cardiff leads the UK with innovation, creativity and dynamic engineering as proven by our previous efforts in delivering free Wi-Fi to the city and surrounding areas in the previous decade, named 'Arwain'. (said in a post Brexit/Trump/we can claim anything voice). cite BBC 2002 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2251565.stm Arwain was overtaken by the rapid adoption of ADSL (and other large corp. intervention). This tentative, new venture hopes to keep the banners of 'free' and 'open source' flying.