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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

    Team Completes Two Test Fiber Drops

    Team SEMO completed two test fiber drops – the process of getting fiber to the outside of a home – in Miner. We will soon complete the installation inside the homes and test our Gig fiber network. Team SEMO is making great progress as the Home Internet project started less than 10 months ago. We […]
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    SEMO Electric’s Directors Attend Camp GoSEMO Fiber

    On the 80th Birthday of SEMO Electric Cooperative, the cooperative’s Board of Directors attended Camp GoSEMO Fiber to learn about the fiber installation process and witness the first residential test fiber drop and installation. Directors spent several hours in the classroom, onsite at a member’s residence, and toured the fiber transmission hut at Miner, Mo. […]
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    GoSEMO Taps Fiber

    Ervin Cable Construction and A & H Communications are splicing fiber to prepare fiber drop locations for home installations in Miner, Mo. In this video, A & H is pulling one fiber strand from a fiber buffer tube and connecting it to the splice box (in total, there are 96 strands of fiber within eight […]
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    Fiber News

    GoSEMO Fires Up

    GoSEMO Fiber took a big step as we fired up our edge router inside the network operations center (NOC) at The Hut in Sikeston, Mo. An edge router is a specialized router residing at the edge or boundary of a network. This router ensures the connectivity of its network with external networks, a wide area […]
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    Thanks to Advance Public Schools

    Thank you Advance Public Schools website, Advance, Mo., for hosting the Home Internet and Home Internet in your high school gym last Friday. We rocked in getting nearly 100 new supporters preregistered for the fastest fiber-to-the-home internet coming to southeast Missouri. We are just as excited as you are to bring speed and service to you. Keep […]
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    Charles Industries Displays Fiber Pedestals

    Dennis and Tom with the Charles Industries website visited SEMO Electric Cooperative to share best practices and train Team SEMO on the use of above-grade pedestals for Home Internet underground fiber installations. Charles Fiber Distribution Point™ (CFDP) and Buried Distribution Optical (BDO) pedestals provide environmental protection for above-grade fiber splice points and are a critical […]
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    Sho-Me’s CTO Keeling Visits SEMO

    Sho-Me Technologies’ website Mark Keeling, chief technology officer, presented an overview of Sho-Me’s fiber capabilities to SEMO Electric Cooperative’s Board of Directors. SEMO Electric selected Sho-Me Technologies, LLC, to provide its fiber interconnection to major “Telco Hotels” in Missouri cities like St. Louis, Kansas City, and Springfield. These interconnections create a pathway to anywhere in […]
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    SEMO Electric visits Barry Electric

    Team SEMO made a visit to the Barry Electric Cooperative’s website, which offers fiber services through the goBEC website in Cassville, Mo., to experience its process for signing up new subscribers for fiber broadband services. We continue to learn and share from other cooperatives as we work on finalizing the process to offer fiber services […]
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    CrowdFiber Conducts Training Session At SEMO Electric

    Bailey White with the CrowdFiber website conducted a training session with Team SEMO regarding member-subscriber relationship management. CrowdFiber’s software platform features integrated applications for Team SEMO to engage and educate members. Plus, the cloud-based system allows subscribers to preregister and complete the fiber sign-up process at the Home Internet.
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    1,100 Supporters!

    We reached 1,100 registered supporters today. Plus, we scheduled the first test fiber-to-the-home installation for the week of December 18 in Miner, Mo. This will give us an opportunity to refine the home installation process and test the fiber network. The GoSEMO Fiber rocket is starting to fly.