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       Dual Tone Multi-Frequency System used by 
      touch-tone telephones. DTMF assigns a specific frequency (consisting of 
      two separate tones) to each key so that it can easily be identified by a 
      microprocessor, so yes DTMF is to blame for never being able to get 
      through to a human voice whenever you want to speak to your bank or book a 
      cinema ticket - yep up there with Gatsos. 
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