An apparatus configured to be employed within an Evolved NodeB, eNB, the apparatus comprising: a processor configured to: generate a transport block, TB; prepare, for each of a plurality of carriers comprising distinct frequency ranges, an associated physical layer encoding of the TB, wherein each physical layer encoding of the TB uses the same redundancy version, RV, of the TB; schedule each physical layer encoding of the TB to a set of physical resources on the associated carrier of the plurality of carriers; and generate one or more control channel messages associated with the physical layer encodings; transmitter circuitry configured to: transmit the physical layer encodings via the scheduled sets of physical resources; and to transmit the one or more control channel messages on at least one of the plurality of carriers, wherein the one or more control channel messages contains a configuration signal that indicates a joint transmission mode to a user equipment, UE, and furthermore indicate downlink, DL, assignments for the UE which include a scheduled set of physical resources in each of the plurality of carriers; and receiver circuitry configured to: receive a single common hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, feedback message associated with the physical layer encodings, wherein the HARQ message comprises an acknowledgment, ACK, or a negative acknowledgment, NACK, in response to whether the transport block, TB, was successfully recovered by the UE in response tc two or more of received, by the UE, transmissions of the transmitted physical layer encodings via the scheduled sets of physical resources. a processor configured to: generate a transport block, TB; prepare, for each of a plurality of carriers comprising distinct frequency ranges, an associated physical layer encoding of the TB, wherein each physical layer encoding of the TB uses the same redundancy version, RV, of the TB; schedule each physical layer encoding of the TB to a set of physical resources on the associated carrier of the plurality of carriers; and generate one or more control channel messages associated with the physical layer encodings; generate a transport block, TB; prepare, for each of a plurality of carriers comprising distinct frequency ranges, an associated physical layer encoding of the TB, wherein each physical layer encoding of the TB uses the same redundancy version, RV, of the TB; schedule each physical layer encoding of the TB to a set of physical resources on the associated carrier of the plurality of carriers; and generate one or more control channel messages associated with the physical layer encodings; transmitter circuitry configured to: transmit the physical layer encodings via the scheduled sets of physical resources; and to transmit the one or more control channel messages on at least one of the plurality of carriers, wherein the one or more control channel messages contains a configuration signal that indicates a joint transmission mode to a user equipment, UE, and furthermore indicate downlink, DL, assignments for the UE which include a scheduled set of physical resources in each of the plurality of carriers; and transmit the physical layer encodings via the scheduled sets of physical resources; and to transmit the one or more control channel messages on at least one of the plurality of carriers, wherein the one or more control channel messages contains a configuration signal that indicates a joint transmission mode to a user equipment, UE, and furthermore indicate downlink, DL, assignments for the UE which include a scheduled set of physical resources in each of the plurality of carriers; and receiver circuitry configured to: receive a single common hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, feedback message associated with the physical layer encodings, wherein the HARQ message comprises an acknowledgment, ACK, or a negative acknowledgment, NACK, in response to whether the transport block, TB, was successfully recovered by the UE in response tc two or more of received, by the UE, transmissions of the transmitted physical layer encodings via the scheduled sets of physical resources.