AMERICAN TOWER CORP /MA/
8-K, 2000-10-30
COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES, NEC
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, DC 20549


                                    FORM 8-K

                                 CURRENT REPORT
                     PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
                         SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

                Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
                      October 30, 2000 (October 30, 2000)


                           American Tower Corporation
               (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

      Delaware                        001-14195               65-0723837
(State or Other Jurisdiction        (Commission             (IRS Employer
 of Incorporation)                  File Number)           Identification No.)


         116 Huntington Avenue
         Boston, Massachusetts                                 02116
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)                      (Zip Code)


Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (617) 375-7500

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Item 7.  Financial Statements, Pro Forma Financial Information and Exhibits

(c)      Exhibits.

Exhibit No.                Item
99.1                  Summary of contents of presentation materials.

Item 9.  Regulation FD Disclosure

American Tower  Corporation  (the "Company") is furnishing  under Item 9 of this
Current  Report on Form 8-K the  information  included  as Exhibit  99.1 to this
report.  Exhibit  99.1  includes  information  that the Company  will include in
presentations  to current and  prospective  stockholders  and other  persons and
institutions who may be interested in the Company and its business,  finances or
securities in various forums,  including  presentations at industry  conferences
and one-on-one or group meetings with investors or other interested parties.

Exhibit  99.1  contains  "forward-looking  statements"  that involve a number of
risks and uncertainties.  Forward-looking statements include those regarding the
Company's goals, beliefs,  strategies,  objectives,  scenarios, plans or current
expectations and matters that are not historical  facts.  For example,  when the
Company uses the words believe, expect, estimate,  anticipate,  could or similar
expressions,  it is making forward-looking  statements. You should be aware that
certain  factors  may affect the  Company in the future and could  cause  actual
results  to  differ   materially   from  those   expressed   in  the   Company's
forward-looking   statements.   Among  these   factors  are  (i)  the  Company's
substantial capital  requirements and leverage,  principally as a consequence of
its ongoing acquisitions and construction,  (ii) the Company's dependence on the
following:  wireless  communications demand, use of satellites for internet data
transmission and implementation of digital television,  (iii) the success of the
Company's  tower  construction  program,  (iv) the  Company's  ability to locate
attractive  acquisition  targets,  acquire them on terms it feels are reasonable
and  to  successfully   integrate   acquisitions   and  (v)  the   governmental,
expropriation,  currency and fund  repatriation  risks of the Company's  growing
foreign operations. Additional factors include the risk factors set forth in the
prospectus  relating to the Company's June 2000 public equity offering.  Exhibit
99.1 is dated as of the date hereof and reflects  management's views as of those
dates. The Company undertakes no obligation to update the information  contained
in Exhibit 99.1, including  forward-looking  statements, to reflect subsequently
occurring events or circumstances.

Note:  the  information  in this report  (including  Exhibit  99.1 is  furnished
pursuant  to Item 9 and shall not be deemed to be "filed"  for the  purposes  of
Section 18 of the  Securities  Exchange  Act of 1934,  as amended,  or otherwise
subject to the  liabilities  of that section.  This report will not be deemed an
admission  as to the  materiality  of any  information  in the  report  that  is
required to be disclosed solely by Regulation FD.


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                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the  requirements  of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934,
the  Registrant  has duly  caused  this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                                     AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION
                                           (Registrant)

Date:  October 30, 2000              By:  /s/ Justin D. Benincasa
                                          Name:  Justin D. Benincasa
                                          Title:  Senior Vice President and
                                                   Corporate Controller


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