From the APB-Reloaded Development Blog:

“The closed beta build is finalized, servers are getting spun-up as I type this, and we are about to release the first wave of Closed Beta in the wild!”

“Some cautionary notes first: we are rolling the Beta out in waves. Wave 1 is going to be US-West (since that’s close to our base of operations), which means US-East and Europe we will have to wait just A LITTLE BIT. But for good measure we will let a few people from Europe and South America actually play on US-West to test high-ping-time traffic as well. Wave 2 will be Europe. And Wave 3 will be US-East. We also have a Wave 4 planned for Sao Paulo, Brazil, since we have a datacenter there – however, that location will probably NOT be live until Open Beta or even later (importing high end six-core Intel hardware into Brazil turns out to be tricky, expensive and time consuming ).”

For those of you that signed up originally by submitting your email, they sent out emails with a key to submit an official application towards receiving a potential beta key. I just received my key today and am downloading the beta as we speak. (I actually happen to be on the US-East!)

If you applied, continue checking your emails!