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Are you missing out on family time, educational opportunities, smooth business operations, and enjoyable activities due to unreliable electricity or broadband? Ensure a complete and secure life with dependable, affordable electricity through our Who We Are page. Explore our Home Internet page for lightning-fast fiber internet and phone services. Every connection matters to us! We cater to homes, farms, churches, schools, and businesses, striving to enhance lives. Your interest in our cooperative’s efforts to enrich lives is deeply appreciated. Stay updated through our Newsroom.

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  • Fiber News

    The Best Ways to Stream NFL Games For the 2021-22 Season

    Are you ready for some football? Find out how to stream your favorite NFL games this season. The Best Ways to Stream NFL Games For the 2021-22 Seaso (PDF)
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    Where to Stream Kid-Friendly Halloween Movies?

    Check out the link below to find out where to Stream Kid-Friendly Halloween Movies. https://www.parents.com/…/kids-halloween-movies-on…/
  • Fiber News

    Channel Lineup Changes

    ACC Network Added For Advanced TV Subscribers Great news for GoSEMO Fiber subscribers who are sports fans! GoSEMO has added the ACC Network (Channel 315) to our lineup for Advanced level TV customers! The ACC Network offers approximately 450 live sporting events: including 40 regular-season college football games and 150 men’s and women’s basketball games! […]
  • Fiber News

    Subscriber 7,000! Who Be Subscriber 8,000?

    In March 2017, SEMO Electric Cooperative said “Let’s do it!” Let’s make people’s lives better with GoSEMO Fiber. Why? Because no one else was going to bring fiber broadband to rural southeast Missouri. We understand the need for internet speed and reliability so you can work, learn, shop, play, and receive telemedicine from your home, […]
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    Dove Season 2021

    SIKESTON, Mo. (KFVS) – A Heartland electric company is seeing outages due to people shooting birds. SEMO Electric Cooperative is experiencing these broadband outages because of doves being shot at while on utility lines in southeast Missouri. Ten occurrences have happened since the start of September for this particular company. Fiber optic cables have been […]
  • Fiber News

    Outage Is Fixed

    All fiber services are restored due to the gunshot outage in our Tilsit, Jackson, Gordonville, and Cape areas.
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    Outage Due to Gunshot

    Unfortunately, a large part of the service territory was affected by a fiber outage today due to illegally hunting doves and shooting our fiber mainline. Our crews continue to make the repairs and splices necessary, but this very costly damage just takes a lot of time as well because of the location of the broken […]
  • Fiber News

    Fiber Company Leader Hopes to Bring More Fiber-Optic Internet to Rural Southeast Missouri

    Fiber Company Leader Hopes to Bring More Fiber-Optic Internet to Rural Southeast Mo. Article SIKESTON, Mo. (KFVS) – The effort continues to bring broadband internet service to rural communities in southeast Missouri, and leaders with Go SEMO hope the state’s huge financial commitment to broadband means more resources to make it happen. Last week Governor […]
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    Vanslyke testifies about #RuralBroadband

    SEMO Electric Cooperative and GoSEMO Fiber’s CEO Sean Vanslyke testifies about #RuralBroadband before the Missouri House of Representatives Interim Committee on Broadband Development in the State Capitol at Jefferson City as we work to #makepeopleslivesbetter. See Electric cooperatives encourage legislators to up investment in rural broadband Article
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    Internet Grant Winner

    As a homeschool teacher and mom of three boys, Kim Bunger knows her family needs to operate efficiently. For the busy lifestyle of the Bunger family, high-speed fiber internet has become a must-have, particularly in light of the pandemic. As members of SEMO electric cooperative for more than 20 years, all six members of the […]