diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 335e09fa0..c81a9ab44 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -188,9 +188,6 @@ PKG_CHECK_MODULES(libdbuscpp, dbus-c++-1 >= ${LIBDBUSCPP_MIN_VERSION})
 SFLPHONE_CFLAGS="$SFLPHONE_CFLAGS $libdbuscpp_CFLAGS"
 SFLPHONE_LIBS="$SFLPHONE_LIBS $libdbuscpp_LIBS"
 
-# check for libboost (doesn't use pkg-config)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(boost/tokenizer.hpp, , AC_MSG_ERROR("Unable to find the libboost tokenizer headers; you may need to install the libboost-dev package" ) )
-
 # check for libgsm1 (doesn't use pkg-config)
 dnl Check for libgsm
 AC_ARG_WITH([gsm],
diff --git a/src/audio/audiolayer.h b/src/audio/audiolayer.h
index 471e85e2b..bcb54c88b 100644
--- a/src/audio/audiolayer.h
+++ b/src/audio/audiolayer.h
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 #define _AUDIO_LAYER_H
 
 #include <cc++/thread.h> // for ost::Mutex
-#include <boost/tokenizer.hpp>
 
 #include "../global.h"
 #include "audiodevice.h"
diff --git a/src/managerimpl.cpp b/src/managerimpl.cpp
index 9d0c97d45..bff84f1af 100644
--- a/src/managerimpl.cpp
+++ b/src/managerimpl.cpp
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@
 #include <ccrtp/rtp.h>     // why do I need this here?
 #include <cc++/file.h>
 
-#include <boost/tokenizer.hpp>
-
 #include "manager.h"
 #include "account.h"
 #include "audio/audiolayer.h"
@@ -1118,19 +1116,21 @@ ManagerImpl::initAudioCodec (void)
   }
 }
 
-  std::vector<std::string>
+std::vector<std::string>
 ManagerImpl::retrieveActiveCodecs()
 {
-  std::vector<std::string> order; 
-  std::string list;
+  std::vector<std::string> order;
+  std::string  temp;
   std::string s = getConfigString(AUDIO, "ActiveCodecs");
-  typedef boost::tokenizer<boost::char_separator<char> > tokenizer; 
-  boost::char_separator<char> slash("/");
-  tokenizer tokens(s, slash); 
-  for(tokenizer::iterator tok_iter = tokens.begin(); tok_iter!= tokens.end(); ++tok_iter)
+
+  while (s.find("/", 0) != std::string::npos)
   {
-    order.push_back(*tok_iter);
+    size_t  pos = s.find("/", 0);
+    temp = s.substr(0, pos);
+    s.erase(0, pos + 1);
+    order.push_back(temp);
   }
+
   return order;
 }