424B3 1 0001.txt PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT RULE NO. 424(b)(3) REGISTRATION NO. 333-43142 PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT (To Prospectus dated October 31, 2000) [LOGO] WIRELESS HOLDRs 1,000,000,000 Depositary Receipts Wireless HOLDRS SM Trust This prospectus supplement supplements information contained in the prospectus dated October 31, 2000 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 11 of the base prospectus shall be replaced with the following:
Primary U.S. Share Trading Name of Company Ticker Amounts Market ------------------------------------- ------ ------- ------------ AT&T Corp.--AT&T Wireless Group AWE 40 NYSE Aether Systems, Inc. AETH 1 Nasdaq NMS Crown Castle International Corp. TWRS 4 Nasdaq NMS LM Ericsson Telephone Company ERICY 74 Nasdaq NMS Motorola, Inc. MOT 41 NYSE Netro Corporation NTRO 1 Nasdaq NMS Nextel Communications, Inc. NXTL 16 Nasdaq NMS Nextel Partners, Inc. NXTP 4 Nasdaq NMS Nokia Corp. NOK 23 NYSE Qualcomm Incorporated QCOM 13 Nasdaq NMS Research In Motion Limited RIMM 2 Nasdaq NMS RF Micro Devices, Inc. RFMD 4 Nasdaq NMS SK Telecom Co., Ltd. SKM 17 NYSE Sprint Corporation--PCS Group PCS 21 NYSE Telesp Cellular Holding Company TCP 3 NYSE United States Cellular Corporation USM 1 AMEX Verizon Communications VZ 17 NYSE Vodafone Group p.l.c. VOD 21 NYSE VoiceStream Wireless Corporation(/1/) VSTR 5.0375 Nasdaq NMS Western Wireless Corporation WWCA 2 Nasdaq NMS
------- (1) On July 23, 2000, VoiceStream Wireless Corporation announced that it entered into a merger agreement with Deutsche Telekom AG. This transaction is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. 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 March 30, 2001.