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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

    SEMO Electric Visits OzarksGo

    A few members from Team SEMO made a visit to the Ozarks Electric Cooperative website, which offers fiber services through OzarksGo, LLC website, in Fayetteville, Ark., to learn best practices for scheduling and installing fiber inside a home or business for internet, HDTV, and phone services. As we continue our phase one construction in Miner, […]
  • Fiber News

    Rural Internet Topic of FCC Chair’s Visit

    Source: West Plains Daily Quill webiste Wednesday morning, patrons of Missouri’s Eighth Congressional District filed into the West Plains Civic Center theater, many from outside of Howell County, to listen to a discussion on rural broadband internet access with Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai. The gathering, promoted by Eighth District Rep. Jason Smith as […]
  • Fiber News

    GoSEMO Selects Sho-Me Technologies for Interconnection to the World

    SEMO Electric Cooperative has selected the Sho-Me Technologies website, 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 the world for connectivity. The agreement with Sho-Me is another step in SEMO Electric’s journey to provide triple-play […]
  • Fiber News

    Pad Poured, Five Miles of Strand Pulled in Miner

    For our member-owners in the Miner area, progress continues on our first phase to provide fiber internet within the next four months. More than five miles of 23 total miles of strand have been pulled. Once we pull the strand, crews will come back and attach the fiber. Plus, the concrete pad for Miner’s fiber […]
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    KFVS (CBS): Fiber Project to Bring High-Speed Internet to Parts of Southeast MO

    KFVS – Around 11,000 SEMO Electric Co-op customers will get high-speed internet. The company began a five-phase project and said they’ll offer the fastest internet in the area. SEMO Electric said this comes 80 years after the company first ran electricity to these same communities. “Well, I think our board of directors looked at it […]
  • Fiber News

    CellSite Solutions delivers The Hut

    As part of SEMO Electric Cooperative’s new network operations center (NOC), a 53,000-pound hut was delivered and placed on its pad. The Hut will house the co-op’s electronics for electricity and fiber operations. The cost for the prep work, pad, and The Hut, from the CellSite Solutions website, is around $35,000. Team SEMO is working […]
  • Fiber News

    GoSEMO Partners with Momentum Telecom

    After several meetings and a visit to Momentum Telecom’s call center in Cartersville, Georgia, GoSEMO has partnered with Momentum Telecom to provide white-label voice and phone services to GoSEMO subscribers. Additionally, Momentum Telecom will help provide 24/7 call center services to assist subscribers with internet connectivity issues. Momentum Telecom, a leading hosted VoIP, broadband services, […]
  • Fiber News

    Semo Electric Leveraging Crowd Fiber for Fiber Analysis

    We made a quick visit to the CrowdFiber website to learn about their software to help SEMO Electric Cooperative utilize real-time, multi-dimensional analysis tools to plan and respond to the fiber market and run what-if scenarios to help deploy the cooperative’s capital most effectively. The process has some similarities to the electric business. In addition, […]
  • Fiber News

    Randy Laird & Sons Concrete Pours Pad for Fiber Communication Shelter

    Randy Laird & Sons Concrete Contractors poured the pad for SEMO Electric Cooperative’s main fiber communication shelter for its broadband project. This is just one step of hundreds of steps the co-op is taking to bring broadband services to southeast Missouri. The concrete shelter will safeguard sensitive fiber equipment from the surrounding environment and is […]
  • Fiber News

    Semo Electric Selects Ervin Cable Construction for Fiber Build-Out

    Through a competitive bidding process, SEMO Electric Cooperative selected Ervin Cable Construction (ECC), LLC, to build its area-wide, multi-million dollar fiber-optic network to connect substations and provide broadband services such as fiber internet to homes, farms, and businesses in southeast Missouri. ECC, with corporate offices in Sturgis, Kentucky, began business in 1980 as a small […]