Telecom status update: Cautiously optimistic - FierceTelecom

To a corporate executive, there can't be two more comforting words in the English language than "cautiously optimistic." If things turn out well, you get to have retroactive dibs on foresight, and if they turn out poorly, well, you never promised anyone a rose garden.

Perhaps that's why the phrase is used so often. Just within the last few days it described the feelings of major airlines, business leaders in Charlotte, N.C., a number of retailers, the U.N., and a high school girls basketball coach in the Philadelphia area, among many others...