An infrastructure equipment for transmitting data to or receiving data from one or more communications devices in a wireless communications network, the infrastructure equipment comprising: a transmitter configured to transmit signals to one of the one or more communications devices via a wireless access interface in accordance with a plurality of repeat request-type processes associated with the communications device, a receiver configured to receive signals from one or more of the communications devices via the wireless access interface, the wireless access interface providing downlink communications resources arranged in time divided units within a downlink portion of a carrier frequency bandwidth and providing uplink communications resources arranged in the time divided units within an uplink portion of the carrier frequency bandwidth, the wireless access interface being configured according to frequency division duplex, and the downlink communications resources providing within the time divided units a control channel for transmitting control channel messages and a shared channel, the control channel messages allocating communications resources of the shared channel to the communications devices to receive the signals from the infrastructure equipment, and a controller configured with the receiver and transmitter to encode the data as a plurality of data units for transmission, the encoding being in accordance with a corresponding one of the plurality of repeat request-type processes and providing an indication of whether each data unit has been received correctly by the communications device, to transmit a control message allocating resources of the shared channel for receiving a data unit, and to transmit each data unit to the communications device within a different time divided unit in accordance with a one of the plurality of repeat request-type processes associated with the respective time divided unit in accordance with a repeating pattern of time divided units by which at most one repeat request-type process is associated with each time divided unit, wherein the allocated resources of the shared channel are during a time divided unit which is one or more time divided units after a time divided unit in which the control message is transmitted, and the number of repeat request-type processes in the repeating pattern of time divided units is increased from a first number in a first mode to a second number in a second mode, the second number being increased with respect to the first number by a number of one or more repeat request-type processes which is less than or equal to the number of time divided units which separate the control channel message from the time divided unit in which the resources of the shared channel are allocated. a transmitter configured to transmit signals to one of the one or more communications devices via a wireless access interface in accordance with a plurality of repeat request-type processes associated with the communications device, a receiver configured to receive signals from one or more of the communications devices via the wireless access interface, the wireless access interface providing downlink communications resources arranged in time divided units within a downlink portion of a carrier frequency bandwidth and providing uplink communications resources arranged in the time divided units within an uplink portion of the carrier frequency bandwidth, the wireless access interface being configured according to frequency division duplex, and the downlink communications resources providing within the time divided units a control channel for transmitting control channel messages and a shared channel, the control channel messages allocating communications resources of the shared channel to the communications devices to receive the signals from the infrastructure equipment, and a controller configured with the receiver and transmitter to encode the data as a plurality of data units for transmission, the encoding being in accordance with a corresponding one of the plurality of repeat request-type processes and providing an indication of whether each data unit has been received correctly by the communications device, to transmit a control message allocating resources of the shared channel for receiving a data unit, and to transmit each data unit to the communications device within a different time divided unit in accordance with a one of the plurality of repeat request-type processes associated with the respective time divided unit in accordance with a repeating pattern of time divided units by which at most one repeat request-type process is associated with each time divided unit, wherein the allocated resources of the shared channel are during a time divided unit which is one or more time divided units after a time divided unit in which the control message is transmitted, and the number of repeat request-type processes in the repeating pattern of time divided units is increased from a first number in a first mode to a second number in a second mode, the second number being increased with respect to the first number by a number of one or more repeat request-type processes which is less than or equal to the number of time divided units which separate the control channel message from the time divided unit in which the resources of the shared channel are allocated.