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Filed Pursuant to Rule 497(e)
Registration File No.: 333-02419
SUPPLEMENT TO THE PROSPECTUS
OF TCW/DW GLOBAL TELECOM TRUST
DATED JULY 31, 1998
On February 25, 1999, the Board of Trustees of TCW/DW Global Telecom Trust
(the "Fund") approved an Agreement and Plan of Reorganization by and between
the Fund and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Global Utilities Fund ("Global
Utilities"), pursuant to which substantially all of the assets of the Fund
would be combined with those of Global Utilities and shareholders of the Fund
would become shareholders of Global Utilities receiving shares of Global
Utilities equal to the value of their holdings in the Fund (the
"Reorganization"). Each shareholder of the Fund will receive the Class of
shares of Global Utilities that corresponds to the Class of shares of the Fund
currently held by that shareholder. The Reorganization is subject to the
approval of shareholders of the Fund at a special meeting of shareholders
scheduled to be held on June 8, 1999. A proxy statement formally detailing the
proposal, the reasons for the Trustees' action and information concerning
Global Utilities will be distributed to shareholders of the Fund.
The first paragraph under the subsection entitled "Portfolio Management"
under the section of the Prospectus entitled "INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE AND
POLICIES" is hereby replaced by the following:
The Fund's portfolio is actively managed by the Adviser with a view to
achieving the Fund's investment objective. Robert M. Hanisee, a Managing
Director of the Adviser, and Wendy S. Barker, a Senior Vice President of
the Adviser, are the primary portfolio managers of the Fund. Mr. Hanisee
has been a primary portfolio manager with affiliates of the TCW Group, Inc.
since 1990. Ms. Barker has been a portfolio manager of the Fund since
February 1999 and has been employed by the Adviser since 1992 conducting
large cap equity fundamental research.
February 25, 1999
