Phone company to cut nearly 400 jobs

Qwest has announced job cuts at its customer service, sales and collections areas in central Phoenix.
The layoffs include 360 workers.

A spokesman for the phone company says workers in sales and service will be laid off by mid-December and those working in the collections department will be terminated by the end of February.

The cutbacks will reduce Qwest's work force in the Valley by about eight-percent, to 48-hundred.