Honorable Mentions: Jan. 9

8:00 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 Jan. 6, 2012:

1. 5 Mobile Things That Won't Happen in 2012
2. One Third of the World’s Population Is Online
3. What's Going to Be Hot for Mobile Content in 2012?
4. Spectrum and Acquisitions to Define 2012 for Mobile Carriers
5. Global Telecom Industry Revenue Growing at 5.3 Percent a Year
6. LTE Devices & Applications: Next-Generation Mobile Networks Driven by Video Services
7. The Road Ahead for the M2M Telematics Sector
8. Is the Laptop Dead? Yup
9. The Pros & Cons of Android Fragmentation
10. National Broadband Plans Show a Diversity of Methods But a Unity of Purpose

— Matt Donnelly, Managing Editor, Pyramid Research