A base station that supports coverage enhancement comprising: at least one transceiver; and at least one processor operably coupled to the at least one transceiver, configured to transmit, in resource elements, REs, of central six resource blocks, RBs, in a downlink system bandwidth, five repetitions of a physical broadcast channel, PBCH, conveying a master information block, MIB, wherein, in a frequency division duplex, FDD, system, the five repetitions are transmitted in a first subframe, SF, of a first system frame having a first system frame number, SFN, value and in a last SF of a second system frame having a second SFN value, each of the first and last SFs includes fourteen symbols, each system frame includes ten SFs, each SFN value is determined modulo 1024, and the first SFN value is one larger than the second SFN value or is 1023 smaller than the second SFN value, and wherein: four SF symbols for a first of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh of symbols of the last SF, four SF symbols for a second of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh of the symbols of the last SF, four SF symbols for a third of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth of the symbols of the last SF and in a fourth of symbols of the first SF, four SF symbols for a fourth of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in fifth, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth of the symbols of the first SF, and four SF symbols for a fifth of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh of the symbols of the first SF. at least one transceiver; and at least one processor operably coupled to the at least one transceiver, configured to transmit, in resource elements, REs, of central six resource blocks, RBs, in a downlink system bandwidth, five repetitions of a physical broadcast channel, PBCH, conveying a master information block, MIB, wherein, in a frequency division duplex, FDD, system, the five repetitions are transmitted in a first subframe, SF, of a first system frame having a first system frame number, SFN, value and in a last SF of a second system frame having a second SFN value, each of the first and last SFs includes fourteen symbols, each system frame includes ten SFs, each SFN value is determined modulo 1024, and the first SFN value is one larger than the second SFN value or is 1023 smaller than the second SFN value, and wherein: four SF symbols for a first of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh of symbols of the last SF, four SF symbols for a second of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh of the symbols of the last SF, four SF symbols for a third of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth of the symbols of the last SF and in a fourth of symbols of the first SF, four SF symbols for a fourth of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in fifth, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth of the symbols of the first SF, and four SF symbols for a fifth of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh of the symbols of the first SF. four SF symbols for a first of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh of symbols of the last SF, four SF symbols for a second of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh of the symbols of the last SF, four SF symbols for a third of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth of the symbols of the last SF and in a fourth of symbols of the first SF, four SF symbols for a fourth of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in fifth, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth of the symbols of the first SF, and four SF symbols for a fifth of the five repetitions are respectively transmitted in the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh of the symbols of the first SF.