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RNZ this week that the trials had “not been hugely successful”. “It did highlight some difficulties with the technology itself, with the card perhaps not picking up all of the contacts that it needed to pick up,” he said. “Ultimately it wasn t adding anything that the Bluetooth functionality on someone s phone couldn t do a bit more reliably.”
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Reports on the Bluetooth card trials have not been released but Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins told RNZ in advance of that they had not been a huge success. Contact Harald product head Matt Denton said there might have been “operational issues” with people using the cards.