A method of operating a wireless terminal in a sectorized cell , each sector being adjacent at least one other sector in the cell, and wherein adjacent sectors form sector pairs, each cell including a base station coupled to a multi-face base station antenna ,the method comprising: transmitting path loss information corresponding to a first antenna face of the multi-face base station antenna to said base station ; transmitting path loss information corresponding to a second antenna face of the multi-face base station antenna to said base station ; and receiving a signal from said base station indicating whether said wireless terminal is to operate in a sector state during which the wireless terminal is to communicate with the base station via a single antenna face or a sector pair state mode of operation during which the wireless terminal is to communicate with the base station in a MIMO mode of operation via a pair of antenna faces and further comprising prior to transmitting path loss information corresponding to said first and second antenna faces to the base station, performing power measurements of pilot tone signals and sector nulls comprising performing a first power measurements of a first signal received on a tone at the first antenna face while the second antenna face is not transmitting on that tone and performing second power measurements of a second signal received on a second tone at the second antenna face while the first antenna face is not transmitting on that tone; wherein said path loss information is a function of said power measurements and wherein the path loss information corresponding to the first antenna face and the path loss information corresponding to the second antenna face is transmitted in a jointly coded single report. transmitting path loss information corresponding to a first antenna face of the multi-face base station antenna to said base station ; transmitting path loss information corresponding to a second antenna face of the multi-face base station antenna to said base station ; and receiving a signal from said base station indicating whether said wireless terminal is to operate in a sector state during which the wireless terminal is to communicate with the base station via a single antenna face or a sector pair state mode of operation during which the wireless terminal is to communicate with the base station in a MIMO mode of operation via a pair of antenna faces and further comprising prior to transmitting path loss information corresponding to said first and second antenna faces to the base station, performing power measurements of pilot tone signals and sector nulls comprising performing a first power measurements of a first signal received on a tone at the first antenna face while the second antenna face is not transmitting on that tone and performing second power measurements of a second signal received on a second tone at the second antenna face while the first antenna face is not transmitting on that tone; wherein said path loss information is a function of said power measurements and wherein the path loss information corresponding to the first antenna face and the path loss information corresponding to the second antenna face is transmitted in a jointly coded single report. <EOS>