Meter acquires WiredScore

As the internet has become the load-bearing infrastructure of global commerce, every business should be able to rent a space, flip a switch, and have reliable internet the same way they'd have reliable water and power. But they can't.

Connectivity is still treated as a problem for occupants to solve rather than a default property of the building itself. For tenants, provisioning networks can involve weeks or months of hassle and a startling amount of time and money. Once a company signs a lease, someone has to procure hardware from multiple vendors, install and configure the entire network, and hope it holds together—all before anyone in that space can get to work. When that tenant eventually leaves, the network is either ripped out or abandoned in the walls, and the next tenant starts the process from scratch.

This cycle repeats across billions of square feet of commercial real estate, and it's becoming a competitive problem for building owners: compute-intensive workloads and hybrid work are all leading occupants to evaluate buildings based on the availability of connectivity and network infrastructure. Buildings that can't demonstrate reliable, higher-performance connectivity are losing prospects to buildings that can.

That's why we built Meter: to make sure every business has access to fast, secure, and reliable internet.

Network infrastructure as an asset

Every other networking company today sells equipment to customers and leaves them to assemble the pieces. We don't sell individual hardware, or software, or installation services—we sell end-to-end connectivity, powered by a vertically-integrated stack, rearchitected from the ground up, with ongoing support and predictable costs.

We've scaled this model to tens of millions of square feet, and our co-managed network has become a proven asset for landlords, tenants, and IT teams. But there are over 100 billion square feet of commercial space in the United States alone, and the landlords who own those buildings make infrastructure decisions deliberately, through relationships built over years. Demand for best-in-class connectivity will only grow as more occupants treat it as a wedge issue, so the question for us became: what's the fastest way to meet that demand?

Scaling trust with WiredScore

That's why we acquired WiredScore.

WiredScore has spent over a decade certifying buildings on connectivity. WiredScore audits ISP availability, points of entry, redundant fiber pathways, in-building cellular coverage, and public Wi-Fi. They created something the industry didn't previously have: a shared, rigorous language for what great connectivity looks like in a building. That globally-recognized standard raised expectations on both sides. Landlords who earn high WiredScore ratings see measurable advantages over their competitors, and tenants gain a way to evaluate a building's connectivity before signing a lease, reducing the risk of moving into a space that can't support how they work.

But the industry WiredScore was grading hadn't caught up to the standard WiredScore was setting. A landlord who wanted to improve their rating still faced the same fragmented process—multiple vendors, long timelines, uncertain results—that Meter was built to replace.

By bringing WiredScore into Meter, we connect the standard for great building connectivity to the infrastructure that delivers it. WiredScore certifies all networking that serves the building up to the tenant suite. Meter handles everything from the suite onward: the network, the cellular coverage, and the connectivity for building management systems. Together, we cover certification and connectivity and offer a way to know, from top to bottom, that a building has the best digital infrastructure available. WiredScore will remain independent, continuing to grow its ratings and raise the bar for building connectivity, now with the backing of Meter's resources. For landlords, this means a competitive advantage that's measurable and marketable. For tenants, it means walking into a space with working internet on day one. For IT teams, it means offloading the network entirely—procurement, installation, configuration, and day-to-day management—to a single partner, with ongoing support built in.

Today, we're one step closer to the version of connectivity set out to build: one where every business can rent a space, flip a switch, and get to work.