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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 Asks Legislators to Support Funding for Rural Broadband

    SEMO Electric Cooperative’s CEO Sean Vanslyke attended legislative day at the Missouri State Fair to participate in a broadband round table with Senator Claire McCaskill Facebook Page. He also attended a Missouri Farm Bureau Facebook Page broadband news conference with Senator Roy Blunt Facebook Page, Governor Eric Greitens Facebook Page, and MO Electric Co-op’s Facebook […]
  • Fiber News

    500 Supporters with High-Speed Dream

    500 Supporters Registered! Wikipedia says a dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations. We had a high-speed dream and it is becoming a reality. And momentum is growing. More than 500 people have registered at the Home internet to support the co-op’s mission of providing broadband services such as fiber internet. Make-ready […]
  • Fiber News

    “The internet is not a luxury. “

    For consumers in rural Missouri, this news isn’t a surprise, but it is a good lesson on why SEMO Electric Cooperative is moving forward with GoSEMO Fiber. “The internet is not a luxury. Last year a federal court defined it as a basic utility like running water or electricity, but in rural areas across America, […]
  • Fiber News

    Senator Blunt Marks Rural Broadband Month

    On Wednesday, August 2, 2017, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, spoke on the Senate floor to recognize August as “Rural Broadband Month” and highlight the importance of expanding high-speed internet to rural Missouri. We appreciate Senator Blunt’s support of SEMO Electric Cooperative’s GoSEMO Fiber project. Team SEMO has […]
  • Fiber News

    SEMO Electric/GoSEMO participates in Missouri Farm Bureau’s Rural Broadband Working Group

    Team SEMO’s Sean Vanslyke was invited to participate in Missouri Farm Bureau’s Rural Broadband Working Group meeting in Jefferson City, Mo. Governor Eric Greitens and Director of Agriculture Chris Chinn both spoke at the event and encouraged the group to seek ways for broadband services to be provided to more Missouri families, farms and businesses. […]
  • Fiber News

    Fiber “make-ready” Work Begins Near Miner, Mo.

    As we gear up for Phase 1 fiber construction, the first step is to prepare the electric system for the fiber deployment. This effort is commonly referred to as “make-ready” work. It entails replacing poles that may be too short, adding new guy wires, and making lots of other adjustments so that SEMO Electric Cooperative’s […]
  • Fiber News

    What’s a Triple Play?

    In the baseball world, a triple play (denoted as TP in baseball statistics) is the rare act of making three outs during the same continuous play. Triple plays happen infrequently – there have been 711 triple plays in Major League Baseball from 1876 through June 1, 2017. In the technology world, a triple play is […]
  • Fiber News

    Team SEMO Updated on Development of Fiber Business

    This week we held an all-employee (Team SEMO) meeting to provide GoSEMO updates. We discussed customer care, construction, technology infrastructure, finance, billing, and the development of partnerships. Since the board approved the first phase on March 22, we have spent numerous hours learning from others and organizing the business. We have started to engage with […]
  • Fiber News

    SEMO Electric Selects Conexon for Design and Construction Oversight; Releases Construction RFP

    SEMO Electric Cooperative has contracted the Conexon website to design and manage the construction of a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network for the smart grid and the delivery of broadband to SEMO Electric’s members and other subscribers. Therefore, a Request for Proposal (RFP) has been developed to solicit proposals and pricing from various fiber construction companies to […]
  • Fiber News

    SEMO Electric Visits Co-Mo Electric’s Co-Mo Connect

    We made a visit to Co-Mo Electric Cooperative’s Co-Mo Connect website facilities in Tipton, Mo., to learn best practices for providing internet, HD TV, and phone services. Co-Mo Electric was one of the first electric cooperatives in the nation to offer broadband services to its members. As we work towards our construction phase, we are […]