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== Mission ==

The main motive of TIX is to provide a local facility for the exchange of Internet traffic via an industry association/independent body. TIX encourages Tanzania's [[ISP|Internet Service Providers]] to connect their networks with one another so that they can transfer traffic more directly, offering new and efficient routing possibilities, which in turn speeds up local Internet access. It also provides new opportunities for local businesses, and helps them save lot of money that would otherwise have gone to the payment of international satellite links.<ref>[http://tix.or.tz/objectives.html TIX Objectives]</ref>

Apart from this, the TIX also aims at reducing the cost of bandwidth for local traffic for ISP as well as for the end-users. It also wishes to enhance the convenience for accessing the local content by the end-users. It plans to create a networking hub with the help of which the Tanzanian society can seek information regarding the intensive services.<ref>[http://dgroups.org/file2.axd/a760f8fe-42bc-41e9-8ab6-e989d416a871/SWOPNet_presentation.ppt SWOP Net Presentation]</ref>