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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

    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 […]
  • 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. […]