A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system comprising a base station arranged to communicate with a plurality of terminal devices using frequencies spanning a system frequency bandwidth, wherein the terminal device comprises a tuneable transceiver configured to receive downlink transmissions from the base station using a restricted frequency bandwidth which is smaller than and within the system frequency bandwidth, the method comprising:
- sequentially tuning the transceiver to different frequency locations for the restricted frequency bandwidth within the system frequency bandwidth and making measurements of channel conditions at the different frequency locations to provide a corresponding plurality of measurements of channel conditions;
- communicating information, derived from the plurality of measurements of channel conditions, to the base station in a plurality of channel condition reports corresponding with a respective one of the plurality of measurements of channel conditions;
- and
- receiving a plurality of resource allocation messages, from the base station, indicating uplink transmission resources to be used for sending respective ones of the channel condition reports, wherein
- different ones of the plurality of resource allocation messages are received with the transceiver tuned to different frequency locations for the restricted frequency bandwidth within the system frequency bandwidth.