Frontier CEO says she'll beat Google Fiber 'hype' with better prices

You don't need a gig. That's the case Frontier Communications chief executive Maggie Wilderotter is making as Google Fiber readies a charge into the Portland (OR) area, perhaps as soon as 2015.

Frontier, which has had a monopoly on residential fiber in Portland's suburbs since acquiring Verizon's FiOS service in 2010, says Google is pitching something consumers don't understand, and don't need.