MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INC.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith is based out of New York. Broadband HOLDRS are depositary receipts issued by the Broadband HOLDRS Trust, and represent an undivided beneficial ownership in the United States-traded common stock of a group of specified companies that develop, manufacture and market products and services, which facilitate the transmission of data, video and voice more quickly and efficiently than traditional telephone line communications. The 22 issuers of the underlying securities represented by a Broadband HOLDR, as of August 8, 2005, were Agere Systems Inc., Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, Broadcom Corporation, Ciena Corporation, Comverse Technology, Inc., Conexant Systems, Inc., Corning, Inc., JDS Uniphase Corporation, Lucent Technologies, Inc., Motorola, Inc., Mindspeed Technologies, Nortel Networks Corporation, PMC-Sierra, Inc., Qualcomm Incorporated, RF Micro Devices, Inc., Sycamore Networks, Inc., Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., Skyworks Solutions, Inc., Terayon Communications Systems, Inc., Tellabs, Inc. and Tut Systems.Whalewisdom has at least 4 13D filings, 49 13G filings, and 107 Form 4 filings The firm has no submitted 13F filings and does not appear to be an investment advisor.