Even though neither he or me know how, tombert made me acquire the following:
pimbert: Can I make telephone calls with it?
O2 salesman: I can't tell you, no one ever asked
pimbert: Its number is printed on the sticker here, though.
O2 salesman: Well, you can try...
-- A MONTH PASSES --
I didn't really get to try out using the stick for making phone calls, but with some prodding of the modem via the program minicom, I managed to see an incoming call I made to the phone number belonging to the sim-card: "RING"! Hurray!
Furthermore I called the O2 service if there would be a way to see my usage, or have the help-desk look it up for me, but apparently this is only possible by locally counting it via their windows program "mobile partner" (linux alternative: sum the bytes as shown in ifconfig on ending each session via /etc/ip-down). The program "mobile partner" is a beast. It only works under windows, and if started as administrator. It is not possible to keep the connection when switching users. On my old via, the program "mobile partner" ate most of my cpu resources, just for connecting.
This makes me wonder: do they know it my usage at all? Maybe it's too complicated technically to keep track of these data, so far I have a vague confirmation of this due to the fact that I am still online, 2 weeks after my free flatrate ended and I so far didn't load money on the card. Can't complain, though :)
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