Re: Is Musk going for geostationary?
There's a system in place that has been operated in a gentlemanly way for the global benefit of everyone. It works - satcomms is a very successful business nowadays.
So when you get a player who isn't playing by the rules it's a threat to the smooth cooperation between all involved in the space industry. This time it's not even China/Russia/<insert name of another country typically percieved as being belligerent>, it's an American company regulated by the US government.
It will be interesting to see what the FCC (who haven't exactly done very well recently) do. They should give SpaceX a thick ear and tell them to stop being so immature about whatever big-dickery they think their constellational plan is. They probably won't because they haven't already done so. Which would be an embarrassment to the USA as it would be them playing silly buggers this time.
And domestically one has to ask, if the departments of the US government are willing to cave in to corporate pressure on something so trivial and unimportant as an orbital plan and have the USA protrayed as being just a little bit more of a pariah state than at present, what the **** is the US government for?