I can't tell you how overjoyed I was when I found Google Voice brought back the beep. I had spent years railing on the phone reps "No one has ever paged me!! Just beep! that's it."
I love it that Google recognizes my frustration and sympathizes.
This kinda made me feel sad; numeric keypad access, automatic deletion, annoying menus: that's what I have right now. Damn CRTC & Canadian carriers for not letting this into Canada.