Communication terminal and method for receiving data

A communication terminal comprising:

• a radio frequency receiver configured to receive a signal comprising, for each communication channel of a plurality of communication channels, a signal component transmitted via the communication channel, wherein each signal component is modulated based on a common modulation symbol shared by the plurality of communication channels;
• an equalizer for each communication channel configured to equalize the signal received via the communication channel based on one or more channel parameters of the communication channel;
• a demodulator for each communication channel of the plurality of communication channels configured to calculate probability information representing, for each of a plurality of information bits, a probability for the information bit to be equal to a particular binary value based on the signal received equalized for the communication channel;
• a combiner configured to combine the probability information calculated for the plurality of communication channels;
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• a decoder configured to generate reconstructed useful data based on the combined probability information.