The stick is for UMTS / HSPA + super. I managed the speed test on 16,8MBit. But if you get into a bad-developed area where no UMTS is one has no power. My old stick (E173) switched on then to GSM. But this drive does not do that unfortunately.
There are a few versions of the E353. And that is likely to be one that has no GSM module.
As a UMTS stick with up to 21MBit he deserves 5 * But UMTS does not work everywhere and you have to because access GPRS / EDGE I prefer 2 * ab.