A method for measuring reference signal receive power for use in a Long Term Evolution user equipment, comprising the steps of: processing time samples from a received signal from a base station which comprises reference symbols having a predefined spacing of n subcarriers; performing a Fast Fourier Transform, FFT, operation on the processed time samples for transformation into the frequency domain; extracting said reference symbols from the frequency domain samples to determine a reference signal receive power of the received signal; characterized in that the step of processing time samples for each OFDM symbol, comprises: frequency shifting the received signal so that the upper or lower half band becomes centered around the DC frequency; decimating the frequency shifted signal to a width of n·2 m samples per FFT duration of an OFDM symbol, i.e., per reciprocal of the OFDM subcarrier spacing, wherein n corresponds to the reference symbol spacing as a number of OFDM subcarriers in the received signal and m is an integer; extracting time samples from the decimated signal and frequency shifting said extracted time samples by a first discrete number of carriers such that one of the reference symbols falls to the DC frequency; combining the extracted time samples by dividing them into n sample m vectors, each of which has a length of 2 m equal to the duration of the subsequently performed FFT operation and superimposing said n sample vectors to obtain a single sample vector of a length of 2 m and wherein said FFT operation step is performed on the superimposed signal to obtain a contiguous set of reference symbol carriers which are used to determine the reference signal receive power of the received signal. processing time samples from a received signal from a base station which comprises reference symbols having a predefined spacing of n subcarriers; performing a Fast Fourier Transform, FFT, operation on the processed time samples for transformation into the frequency domain; extracting said reference symbols from the frequency domain samples to determine a reference signal receive power of the received signal; characterized in that the step of processing time samples for each OFDM symbol, comprises: frequency shifting the received signal so that the upper or lower half band becomes centered around the DC frequency; decimating the frequency shifted signal to a width of n·2 m samples per FFT duration of an OFDM symbol, i.e., per reciprocal of the OFDM subcarrier spacing, wherein n corresponds to the reference symbol spacing as a number of OFDM subcarriers in the received signal and m is an integer; extracting time samples from the decimated signal and frequency shifting said extracted time samples by a first discrete number of carriers such that one of the reference symbols falls to the DC frequency; combining the extracted time samples by dividing them into n sample m vectors, each of which has a length of 2 m equal to the duration of the subsequently performed FFT operation and superimposing said n sample vectors to obtain a single sample vector of a length of 2 m and wherein said FFT operation step is performed on the superimposed signal to obtain a contiguous set of reference symbol carriers which are used to determine the reference signal receive power of the received signal. frequency shifting the received signal so that the upper or lower half band becomes centered around the DC frequency; decimating the frequency shifted signal to a width of n·2 m samples per FFT duration of an OFDM symbol, i.e., per reciprocal of the OFDM subcarrier spacing, wherein n corresponds to the reference symbol spacing as a number of OFDM subcarriers in the received signal and m is an integer; extracting time samples from the decimated signal and frequency shifting said extracted time samples by a first discrete number of carriers such that one of the reference symbols falls to the DC frequency; combining the extracted time samples by dividing them into n sample m vectors, each of which has a length of 2 m equal to the duration of the subsequently performed FFT operation and superimposing said n sample vectors to obtain a single sample vector of a length of 2 m and wherein said FFT operation step is performed on the superimposed signal to obtain a contiguous set of reference symbol carriers which are used to determine the reference signal receive power of the received signal.