Skype, an Web calling service, which has more than 400 million users around the world, is aggressively moving into cell phones.

The company, based in Luxembourg, plans to announce Tuesday that it will produce its free software available immediately for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch and, beginning in May, for various BlackBerry phones, made by Research in Motion.

Other companies have already made software for those phones that works with Skype, but they do not offer all of Skype’s features.

As with Skype on the computer, users on cell phones can compose calls and send instant messages to other Skype users free, and they pay lower rates than the phone companies would charge to signal landlines or other cell phones with Skype.

that year, Skype, a unit of eBay, announced versions of its software for Nokia phones and phones running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Google’s Android operating systems.

Apple will limit Skype’s use […]

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