424B3 1 f424b3_103102-wireless.txt PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT FILED PURSUANT TO RULE NO. 424(b)(3) PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT REGISTRATION NO. 333-43142 (To Prospectus dated January 29, 2002) [HOLDRS WIRELESS LOGO] 1,000,000,000 Depositary Receipts Wireless HOLDRS (SM) Trust This prospectus supplement supplements information contained in the prospectus dated January 29, 2002 relating to the sale of up to 1,000,000,000 depositary receipts by the Wireless HOLDRS (SM) Trust. The share amounts specified in the table on page 13 of the base prospectus shall be replaced with the following:
Share Primary Name of Company Ticker Amounts Trading Market --------------- ------ ------- -------------- Aether Systems, Inc. AETH 1 NASDAQ AT&T Wireless Services AWE 40 NYSE Crown Castle International Corp. CCI 4 NYSE Deutsche Telekom AG * DT 18.4841 NYSE Ericsson LM Telephone Company *(1) ERICY 74 NASDAQ Motorola, Inc. MOT 41 NYSE Netro Corporation, Inc. NTRO 1 NASDAQ Nextel Communications, Inc. NXTL 16 NASDAQ Nextel Partners, Inc. NXTP 4 NASDAQ Nokia Corp. * NOK 23 NYSE Qualcomm Incorporated QCOM 13 NASDAQ Research In Motion Limited RIMM 2 NASDAQ RIF Micro Devices, Inc. RFMD 4 NASDAQ SK Telecom Co., Ltd. * SKM 17 NYSE Sprint Corporation--PCS Group ** PCS 21 NYSE Telesp Celular Participacoes S.A. *(2) TCP 3 NYSE United States Cellular Corporation USM 1 AMEX Verizon Communications VZ 17 NYSE Vodafone Group p.l.c. * VOD 21 NYSE Western Wireless Corporation WWCA 2 NASDAQ
------------------------------- * The securities of these non-U.S. companies trade in the United States as American depositary receipts. Please see "Risk Factors" and "United States Federal Income Tax Consequences--Special considerations with respect to underlying securities of foreign issuers" for additional information relating to an investment in a non-U.S. company. ** The securities of this company trade as a tracking stock. Please see "Risk Factors" and the business description in Annex A for additional information relating to an investment in tracking stock. (1) As a result of a rights distribution by Ericsson LM Telephone Company, a component of Wireless HOLDRS, each shareholder of record of an American Depositary Share of Ericsson as of August 13, 2002 received 1 Ericsson right, or 0.74 Ericsson rights per Wireless HOLDR. Holders of a whole Ericsson right were entitled to purchase an American Depositary Share of Ericsson at a price of Swedish Krona 3.80, payable in U.S. dollars. The distributed rights expired on August 27, 2002. (2) As a result of a rights distribution by Telesp Celular Participacoes S.A., a component of Wireless HOLDRS, each shareholder of record of an American Depositary Share of Telesp Celular as of July 11, 2002 received 1.55642832 Telesp Celular rights, or 0.0466928496 Telesp Celular rights per Wireless HOLDR. Holders of a whole Telesp Celular right were entitled to purchase an American Depositary Share of Telesp Celular Participacoes at a price of $3.25. The distributed rights expired on August 7, 2002. The share amounts listed in the table above reflect all previous stock splits, dividends and business combination transactions. The date of this prospectus supplement is September 30, 2002. 2