By AP/KWMU
Kansas City – AT&T's decision to pull back from the residential phone market means hundreds of lost jobs in Missouri.
The nation's largest long-distance phone company won't say how many people were laid off this week at call centers in St. Louis and the Kansas City suburb of Lee's Summit.
But a Missouri union official puts the number at more than 400. 270 of those are in St Louis.
AT&T announced last week it's shifting its focus to serving business and high-speed Internet customers.
Judi Sterns, with the Communications Workers of America, says she thinks even more jobs will go as AT&T stops adding new residential customers.