A user equipment, UE, operating with a 3GPP 5G new radio, NR, radio access technology, RAT, the UE comprising: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a signal; and a controller coupled with the transceiver and configured to: receive, from a base station via the transceiver, synchronization signals and a master information block, MIB, in a first bandwidth, BW, receive, from the base station via the transceiver, a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, in a second BW wherein the second BW is indicated by an offset in the MIB relative to the first BW and the PDCCH conveys a downlink control information, DCI, format that configures a reception of a first system information block, SIB, wherein the SIB indicates: configuration information for transmission of channel state information reference signals, CSI-RS, according to the 3GPP long term evolution, LTE, RAT; configuration information for a partitioning of a predetermined number of subframes in a normal subframes and in multicast-broadcast single-frequency network, MBSFN, subframes according to the 3GPP LTE RAT; and a configuration for a first number of subframe symbols in each normal subframe and for a second number of subframe symbols in each MBSFN subframe; wherein the transceiver is further configured to exclude from 3GPP 5G NR RAT receptions symbols and subcarriers of the transmission of the CSI-RS, the first number of subframe symbols, and the second number of subframe symbols. a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a signal; and a controller coupled with the transceiver and configured to: receive, from a base station via the transceiver, synchronization signals and a master information block, MIB, in a first bandwidth, BW, receive, from the base station via the transceiver, a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, in a second BW wherein the second BW is indicated by an offset in the MIB relative to the first BW and the PDCCH conveys a downlink control information, DCI, format that configures a reception of a first system information block, SIB, receive, from a base station via the transceiver, synchronization signals and a master information block, MIB, in a first bandwidth, BW, receive, from the base station via the transceiver, a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, in a second BW wherein the second BW is indicated by an offset in the MIB relative to the first BW and the PDCCH conveys a downlink control information, DCI, format that configures a reception of a first system information block, SIB, wherein the SIB indicates: configuration information for transmission of channel state information reference signals, CSI-RS, according to the 3GPP long term evolution, LTE, RAT; configuration information for a partitioning of a predetermined number of subframes in a normal subframes and in multicast-broadcast single-frequency network, MBSFN, subframes according to the 3GPP LTE RAT; and a configuration for a first number of subframe symbols in each normal subframe and for a second number of subframe symbols in each MBSFN subframe; configuration information for transmission of channel state information reference signals, CSI-RS, according to the 3GPP long term evolution, LTE, RAT; configuration information for a partitioning of a predetermined number of subframes in a normal subframes and in multicast-broadcast single-frequency network, MBSFN, subframes according to the 3GPP LTE RAT; and a configuration for a first number of subframe symbols in each normal subframe and for a second number of subframe symbols in each MBSFN subframe; wherein the transceiver is further configured to exclude from 3GPP 5G NR RAT receptions symbols and subcarriers of the transmission of the CSI-RS, the first number of subframe symbols, and the second number of subframe symbols.