424B3 1 f424b3_080504-wireless.txt PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT Filed Pursuant to Rule No. 424(b)(3) (To Prospectus dated July 11, 2003) REGISTRATION NO. 333-43142 [LOGO] 1,000,000,000 Depositary Receipts Wireless HOLDRS (SM) Trust This prospectus supplement supplements information contained in the prospectus dated July 11, 2003 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 in the "Highlights of Wireless HOLDRS" section 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 18.48409 NYSE LM Ericsson Telephone Company * ERICY 7.4 NASDAQ Motorola, Inc. MOT 41 NYSE 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 (1) RIMM 4 NASDAQ RIF Micro Devices, Inc. RFMD 4 NASDAQ SK Telecom Co., Ltd. * SKM 17 NYSE Sprint Corporation (2) FON 10.5 NYSE SR Telecom Inc. SRXA 0.1047 NASDAQ Telesp Celular Participacoes S.A. * 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
------------------------------- (1) Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ:RIMM; TSX:RIM) announced a 2-for-1 stock split on its common stock payable on June 4, 2004 to shareholders of record as of May 27, 2004. Effective June 10, 2004 the share amount of Research In Motion Limited represented by a round lot of 100 Wireless HOLDRS was 4. (2) Shares of Sprint Corporation--PCS Group (NYSE:PCS) were previously included in Wireless HOLDRS and were traded, along with shares of Sprint Corporation--FON Group (NYSE:FON) as tracking stocks. As a result of a reclassification of shares, effective April 23, 2004, the PCS tracking stock was eliminated and each share of PCS common stock was automatically converted into .50 shares of FON common stock. Effective April 26, 2004 the share amount of Sprint Corporation (in the form of Sprint Corporation--FON Group shares) represented by a round lot of 100 Wireless HOLDRS was 10.5. * 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 share amounts listed in the table above reflect all previous stock splits, dividends and business combination transactions. The date of this prospectus supplement is June 30, 2004.