The introduction of MIMO capabilities in existing WCDMA HSPA networks is an important step in the

evolution of the technology towards higher spectral efficiency and bitrates. With MIMO at least two
transmit antennas needs to be used within the same cell. However, the introduction of a second transmit
antenna port has a negative influence for legacy user equipment (UE) for which the signals transmitted on
the second antenna port will show up as interference, as illustrated in FIG. 1. Ideally, since the second
antenna port signals, such as the S-CPICH and the MIMO streams, are transmitted with channelization
codes that are orthogonal to the ones used for the legacy users, this interference will be fully orthogonal
and therefore completely suppresseda