A method for user equipment operations, the method comprising: determining, at a user equipment, a transmit power level for transmit antennas of the user equipment having at least two transmit antennas, wherein determining a transmit power level for transmit antennas comprises: determining the transmit power level as a sum of transmit powers for the at least two transmit antennas, and distributing the sum of transmit powers over the at least two transmit antennas; and setting a power amplifier output level for each of the at least two transmit antennas in accordance with a respective transmit power level; wherein determining the transmit power level for transmit antennas comprises determining the transmit power level for transmit antennas in accordance with a transmission format of transmissions made over the at least two transmit antennas, and the sum of transmit power levels for transmit antennas is defined by a formula: P PUSCH i = min P CMAX, 10 log 10 M PUSCH i + P O_PUSCH j + α j ⋅ PL + Δ TF i + f i, where - P CMAX is a configured UE transmitted power; - M PUSCH ( i) is a bandwidth of physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, resource assignment expressed in number of resource blocks valid for subframe i; - P O_PUSCH ( j) is a parameter configured by an eNB; - α ∈ {0, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1} is a cell specific parameter provided by higher layers; - PL is a downlink pathloss estimate calculated in the UE in dB; - Δ TF ( i) is a power offset based on the transmission format wherein the power offset is always equal to zero for MIMO transmission mode. determining, at a user equipment, a transmit power level for transmit antennas of the user equipment having at least two transmit antennas, wherein determining a transmit power level for transmit antennas comprises: determining the transmit power level as a sum of transmit powers for the at least two transmit antennas, and distributing the sum of transmit powers over the at least two transmit antennas; and setting a power amplifier output level for each of the at least two transmit antennas in accordance with a respective transmit power level; wherein determining the transmit power level for transmit antennas comprises determining the transmit power level for transmit antennas in accordance with a transmission format of transmissions made over the at least two transmit antennas, and the sum of transmit power levels for transmit antennas is defined by a formula: P PUSCH i = min P CMAX, 10 log 10 M PUSCH i + P O_PUSCH j + α j ⋅ PL + Δ TF i + f i, where - P CMAX is a configured UE transmitted power; - M PUSCH ( i) is a bandwidth of physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, resource assignment expressed in number of resource blocks valid for subframe i; - P O_PUSCH ( j) is a parameter configured by an eNB; - α ∈ {0, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1} is a cell specific parameter provided by higher layers; - PL is a downlink pathloss estimate calculated in the UE in dB; - Δ TF ( i) is a power offset based on the transmission format wherein the power offset is always equal to zero for MIMO transmission mode. - P CMAX is a configured UE transmitted power; - M PUSCH ( i) is a bandwidth of physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, resource assignment expressed in number of resource blocks valid for subframe i; - P O_PUSCH ( j) is a parameter configured by an eNB; - α ∈ {0, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1} is a cell specific parameter provided by higher layers; - PL is a downlink pathloss estimate calculated in the UE in dB; - Δ TF ( i) is a power offset based on the transmission format wherein the power offset is always equal to zero for MIMO transmission mode.