User equipment, UE, comprising: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals from an enhanced Node B, eNB, in a network; and processing circuitry configured to: determine whether to implement a coverage enhancement radio link control, RLC, configuration, the coverage enhancement RLC configuration configured to be used by a UE when operating in a coverage enhancement mode in which additional link budget is to be obtained without increasing transmission power and disposed in a location in which a link budget to a nearest serving eNB is worse than a typical link budget value, and use the coverage enhancement RLC configuration to communicate with the eNB in response to determining to implement the coverage enhancement RLC configuration, the coverage enhancement RLC configuration containing values of RLC counters and timers configured to decrease an amount of time before the UE in the coverage enhancement mode is able to request acknowledgment of a transmission to the eNB compared with a non-coverage enhancement RLC configuration; wherein RLC counters, that count a number of bytes transmitted by a transmitting device prior to the transmitting device being able to poll a receiving device, are reduced to below 4 packet data units and/or less than 25KB and wherein timers, that control repetitive polling, are increased to values higher than 500ms. a transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals from an enhanced Node B, eNB, in a network; and processing circuitry configured to: determine whether to implement a coverage enhancement radio link control, RLC, configuration, the coverage enhancement RLC configuration configured to be used by a UE when operating in a coverage enhancement mode in which additional link budget is to be obtained without increasing transmission power and disposed in a location in which a link budget to a nearest serving eNB is worse than a typical link budget value, and use the coverage enhancement RLC configuration to communicate with the eNB in response to determining to implement the coverage enhancement RLC configuration, the coverage enhancement RLC configuration containing values of RLC counters and timers configured to decrease an amount of time before the UE in the coverage enhancement mode is able to request acknowledgment of a transmission to the eNB compared with a non-coverage enhancement RLC configuration; wherein RLC counters, that count a number of bytes transmitted by a transmitting device prior to the transmitting device being able to poll a receiving device, are reduced to below 4 packet data units and/or less than 25KB and wherein timers, that control repetitive polling, are increased to values higher than 500ms. determine whether to implement a coverage enhancement radio link control, RLC, configuration, the coverage enhancement RLC configuration configured to be used by a UE when operating in a coverage enhancement mode in which additional link budget is to be obtained without increasing transmission power and disposed in a location in which a link budget to a nearest serving eNB is worse than a typical link budget value, and use the coverage enhancement RLC configuration to communicate with the eNB in response to determining to implement the coverage enhancement RLC configuration, the coverage enhancement RLC configuration containing values of RLC counters and timers configured to decrease an amount of time before the UE in the coverage enhancement mode is able to request acknowledgment of a transmission to the eNB compared with a non-coverage enhancement RLC configuration; wherein RLC counters, that count a number of bytes transmitted by a transmitting device prior to the transmitting device being able to poll a receiving device, are reduced to below 4 packet data units and/or less than 25KB and wherein timers, that control repetitive polling, are increased to values higher than 500ms.