A relative minnow in the US pay TV arena called TDS Telecom has joined the race to become the country’s first operator to launch a TV service built around Android TV Operator Tier. Despite strong suggestions from this week’s announcement that TDS could be first to market, the telco told us that fellow US operators Windstream and RCN are in the driving seat to get their Android TV Operator Tier offerings to market first, while TDS will follow “later this year”. Based out of Madison, Wisconsin, and listed as the 20th-largest multichannel video service provider with 156,000 video subscribers, TDS Telecom is preparing the roll out of a new TV offering built around its cloud TV platform TDS TV+. It…