Bluetooth SIG The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is an industry group consisting of leaders in the telecommunications, computing, and networking industries that are driving development of the technology and bringing it to market. It will enable users to connect a wide range of computing and telecommunications devices easily and simply, without the need to buy, carry, or connect cables. It delivers opportunities for rapid ad hoc connections, and the possibility of automatic, unconscious, connections between devices. It will virtually eliminate the need to purchase additional or proprietary cabling to connect individual devices. The Bluetooth SIG is working together to define and promote an open, royalty-free specification for seamless wireless connectivity and cable replacement for a wide variety of mobility-enhancing devices. Bluetooth was originally envisioned as a short-range wireless connectivity technology to synchronize data between PCs, handheld devices, and mobile phones, but many of the over 2000 members of the SIG have been positioning it as a wireless networking technology. Future revisions to the Bluetooth specification are in works and intend extending current data rates of ~720 Kbps to support applications that need higher bandwidths.