Patent ID: 8494558

Claim:
A user terminal (UE) for a wireless communications system, the UE comprising: an antenna unit and a receiver unit for receiving signals on a radio channel within the system, the antenna unit having one or more electrically steerable beams and being arranged to steer said beam or beams by a first control signal; a sensor, within the UE, for sensing the position of the UE and for generating an output signal to the evaluation unit indicative of said position; and an evaluation unit which is arranged to measure the UE's communication performance over the radio channel, to receive the output signal from the sensor within the UE, and to generate the first control signal, which indicates whether altering the position of at least part of the UE, and thereby the position of the UE's antenna unit, will result in an increased communication performance over the radio channel for the UE, to obtain an increased Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) range.