8:30 AM -- Matt's Mentions is a free daily telecom newsletter compiled by Matt Donnelly, managing editor at Pyramid Research. To subscribe, click here. Follow Matt on Twitter @PyramidMatt.

The following are the most widely read stories linked from Matt's Mentions for the week ending Feb. 24, 2012:

1. MWC 2012: Small Cells, Wi-Fi & VoLTE
2. Windows on the iPad, & Speedy
3. Social Messaging Apps 'Lost Networks $13.9B in 2011'
4. How Mobile Payments Are Revolutionizing Public Transit
5. Google: Please Don’t Kill Video on the Web
6. ZTE, Huawei Sign Billion-Dollar Deals With US Chip Firms
7. Nokia to Launch Low End Windows Smartphone?
8. Deutsche Telekom CTO Quits
9. Microsoft Office for iPad Expected in Coming Weeks
10. 'iPhone 5' Due to Launch by End of October?

— Matt Donnelly, Managing Editor, Pyramid Research