When we put together a forecast for our sister service Rethink TV on Android TV, a number of people told us that AT&T was looking to invest in the technology, and it seems the operator’s interest is widely known in the Android community. Less known about, especially in the US, is the Android TV Operator Tier, something that Google has led with in Europe, essentially a version whereby a separate launcher can be constructed either by the operator or a third party software house (3SS and Accedo are specialists), so that nothing of the Android brand is seen anywhere, and the layouts and functions all use operator branding and are defined by them. It’s not news, the Android team put…