Method and Apparatus for Selectively Applying the Power Adjustment of a Transmit Power Control Command

A user equipment in a communication network, the user equipment comprising:

• a controller;
• and
• a transceiver, coupled to the controller, that receives a transmit power control command related to a physical uplink shared channel transmission having more than one scheduled transmission repetitions;
• wherein the controller determines an applicability of at least a portion of a power adjustment in the received transmit power control command to less than all of the repetitions of the physical uplink shared channel transmission;
• wherein the transceiver transmits the physical uplink shared channel transmission during each of the more than one scheduled transmission repetitions, wherein the at least the portion of the power adjustment is selectively applied as determined to the specified less than all of the more than one scheduled transmission repetitions.