3 Way Call (Conference Call) on iPhone

Today is the first day I tried to make a 3 Way Call (Conference Call) on my iPhone... Here's what happens:
- I call the first party and they answer
- I push the Add Call button (which puts the first party on hold)
- I dial the second party and they answer
- When I push the Merge Calls button, it puts the second party on hold and releases the first party
- Every time I push the Merge Calls button, it swaps callers putting one on hold and the other on line
Anybody know what is going on here?
Tommy

I am a US user, and I got my iPhone on the 1st day they sold them, but today was the first day I had ever tried 3-Way calling.
I talked to Apple and they told me that my settings at AT&T had to be reset... may had been an issue that I was an AT&T user before I got the iPhone. So, they call AT&T while I was on the phone with them and explained what was going on... they did this because if I were to call AT&T and told them to do it, they may not know what I was talking about.
After resetting my AT&T account, I can now make Conference Calls.
Thanks Apple,
Tommy

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Huh! You're right (even though that's not claimed in the specs).
I still detest the idea of having to run twin modems/radios to to voice & data.
There are 3 things that really bug me & may lead to me leaving Verizon:
1. The stated issue with multi-party calls (which this thread was about before Ohio & I hijacked it for a iPhone/Droid voice & data discussion.)
Even though I don't often have 6 lines going at once, the ability to merge incoming calls seems like a really basic functionality that I used to use quite frequently.
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This on AT&T (or any GSM or UMTS network) dials the number (silently), waits until it connects, dials the passcode.
On verizon, this seems to dial the number silently, start dialing the passcode to a ringing line.
OK: add more pauses...
but now it seems to dial the passcode silently (like with the phone number, which the system accepts) AND with tone. This would be OK if they were in sync, but they're not. I get: Thanks for calling, please enter your passcode: "beep!" Thanks, you're now connected. --and the rest of the people on my conference call hear the remaining beeps and boops until the passcode is complete.
#VZFail
3. Voice & data.
It's actually the one I care the least about, but it'd be nice to have a call AND use my phone for a mobile hot-spot. I know VoLTE will fix this, but I'm shocked to hear AT&T may beat VZ to the punch on this since Verizon has had LTE since just about forever.
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