Gamespy preview, beta confirmed.

[Sydney]

In a recent Gamespy preview they claim that there will be a public beta scheduled mid-April for Fileplanet subscribers only.

...For gamers dying to check out Quake Wars themselves, the good news is that a limited public beta (maybe 50,000-60,000 people) is scheduled to come to Fileplanet in mid-April. There's no word on what maps might be included, but we're guessing "Valley" will be in there somewhere, and possibly a second map if we're lucky. Quake Wars is pretty far along in development, having locked down a final count of 12 maps for release, but Cloud is still evasive when asked when the game might be released. "When it's done," he says, repeating the id Software motto that's now become common in the game industry. We'll be ready.

Read the whole preview here.