Looks like the wait is over! While Skype reports that over a mil­lion users, includ­ing me, are using Skype­Out to place calls to reg­u­lar land­lines, Engad­get picked up a rumor about SkypeIn: SkypeIn in beta — Engadget:

“…we’re way more inter­ested in the more stealthy news that they’re test­ing a new beta which sup­ports SkypeIn, which lets peo­ple with reg­u­lar phone lines call you. A year of SkypeIn will set you back €30, and so far the only phone num­bers you can score are from France, the UK, the US, and Hong Kong, but you don’t actu­ally have to live in one of those coun­tries to get one of those num­bers and they do throw in a free sub­scrip­tion to Skype Voicemail.”

Stu­art Hen­shall at Skype­Jour­nal reports about his first tests with SkypeIn Beta and Andrew Hansen  writes about SkypeIn here.

I’ve been suc­ces­fully using Teleo for incom­ing calls with a Ft. Laud­erdale num­ber, as I posted here. Of course, the prob­lem is Teleo has far fewer users com­pared to Skype.

So … Inter­ested in SkypeIn Beta? You can get it here.

Here’s a quick guide  (Adobe Acro­bat) I made of the City/State for the US Area Codes SkypeIn pro­poses, since it’s not on their signup form.

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