Apparatus (100; 300; 400; 500; 600) for recovering a phase of a received signal (S in) carrying pilot and information symbols, wherein the received signal has been transmitted over a communication channel, the apparatus comprising: a phase estimator configured to blindly estimate symbol-by-symbol phase estimates using the received signal, wherein the phase estimator commits a phase slip with a phase slip probability (P S, P T) depending on the communication channel, wherein the blindly estimated symbol-by-symbol phase estimates comprise a blindly estimated phase estimate for each pilot and information symbol of the received signal, and wherein the phase estimator is further configured to generate symbol-by-symbol phase slip probability information; a demodulator configured to determine demodulated pilot and information symbols based on a coherent reception of the received pilot and information symbols using the blindly estimated symbol-by-symbol phase estimates; a phase slip detector (130; 330; 430; 530; 630) configured to detect the phase slip based on a phase difference between at least one demodulated pilot symbol and at least one corresponding transmitted pilot symbol; and a phase corrector (140; 340; 440; 540) configured to correct a phase of demodulated information symbols based on the detected phase slip, wherein the phase slip corrector (332; 432; 532) is further configured to correct the phase of the demodulated information symbols starting from a symbol for which the phase slip has been detected based on the symbol-by-symbol probability information. a phase estimator configured to blindly estimate symbol-by-symbol phase estimates using the received signal, wherein the phase estimator commits a phase slip with a phase slip probability (P S, P T) depending on the communication channel, wherein the blindly estimated symbol-by-symbol phase estimates comprise a blindly estimated phase estimate for each pilot and information symbol of the received signal, and wherein the phase estimator is further configured to generate symbol-by-symbol phase slip probability information; wherein the blindly estimated symbol-by-symbol phase estimates comprise a blindly estimated phase estimate for each pilot and information symbol of the received signal, and wherein the phase estimator is further configured to generate symbol-by-symbol phase slip probability information; a demodulator configured to determine demodulated pilot and information symbols based on a coherent reception of the received pilot and information symbols using the blindly estimated symbol-by-symbol phase estimates; a phase slip detector (130; 330; 430; 530; 630) configured to detect the phase slip based on a phase difference between at least one demodulated pilot symbol and at least one corresponding transmitted pilot symbol; and a phase corrector (140; 340; 440; 540) configured to correct a phase of demodulated information symbols based on the detected phase slip, wherein the phase slip corrector (332; 432; 532) is further configured to correct the phase of the demodulated information symbols starting from a symbol for which the phase slip has been detected based on the symbol-by-symbol probability information.