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摘要

In-flight internet service is for real. The leading vendor, Air-cell, has American Airlines offering its Gogo service, Delta Air Lines and Virgin America have signed on. Northwest Airlines is poised to join if its acquisition by Delta goes through, and another is soon to announce, says Aircell CEO Jack Blumen-stein. Some 2,000 planes will offer Gogo by the end of next year, he predicts. But does Gogo work? Our own Fritz Nelson, $12.95 lighter on an American flight from Los Angeles to New York, offers this blog post: "The video chat worked flawlessly.... I even watched a video on our site while holding a video chat. A little extra buffering on the video, but after that, it streamed perfectly. ... The idea of having an instant office up in the sky is pretty appealing."