WiredScore, a New York-based company, provides Wired Certification. This rates building internet connectivity at four levels: platinum, gold, silver and certified. CoStar, the CRE information and analytics company, added this feature to its buildings' profile pages.
Having a trusted third party visit and audit a building's infrastructure provides critical information about internet capabilities, before a tenant signs a lease, says the founder and CEO of WiredScore, Arie Barendrecht. He emphasizes even minor internet outages substantially cost businesses real dollars.
“If you are a direct to consumer e-commerce company and suddenly you can't transact or your customer service team can't connect with the unhappy customer, then these costs quickly get into the tens of millions of dollars,” says Barendrecht in a GlobeSt.com interview.
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Betsy Kim
Betsy Kim was the bureau chief, East Coast, and New York City reporter for Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. As a lawyer and journalist, Betsy has worked as the director of editorial and content for LexisNexis Lawyers.com, a TV/multi-media journalist for NBC and CBS affiliated TV stations in the Midwest, and an associate producer at Court TV.
