AT&T promised us new merged plans with DirecTV in January and its new unlimited mobile data plan is one such move, which it has targeted at its pay TV subscribers, whether new or existing. There is no reason we can think of to stop an MNO offering priced bundles to a selected group of customers so long as no priority is given to the associated traffic and no reason either why it cannot exploit this to cross promote another service, in this case either the DirecTV DTH package or U-Verse IPTV. In the US operators are free to build their network optimized for video, which AT&T has done with its nationwide infrastructure for backhauling wireless as well as delivering IP…