1. A subscriber unit or other transmitter for use in a wireless1 communication system, the subscriber unit comprising: plural information sources of information data; âx94¬Ãº an encoder for encoding the information data; plural control sources of control data; and

3. A subscriber unit as claimed in claim 2, wherein the modulator 2 is operable to multiplex the power control data with the pilot data.

4. A subscriber unit as claimed in claim 3, wherein the modulator 2 is operable to combine the control data for continuous transmission.

5. A subscriber unit as claimed in claim 4, wherein the modulator 2 is operable to modulate the information data for transmission from time to time.

6. A subscriber unit as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein 2 the modulation codes are Walsh codes.

6 a modulator for modulating encoded information data with respective different modulating codes for transmission on a carrier signal,

7. A subscriber unit as claimed in claim 6, wherein the Walsh 2 code used to modulate the information data from a first one of the information sources is longer than the Walsh code used to modulate the 4 information data from a second one of the information sources.

8 for combining the control data from the plural sources, and outputting the encoded information data and the combined control data for transmission.

8. A subscriber unit as claimed in claim 7, wherein the Walsh 2 code used to modulate the information data from the first one of the information sources comprises four chips, and the Walsh code used to modulate the information data from the second one of the information sources comprises two chips.

9. A subscriber unit as claimed in any preceding claim, further comprising a combiner for combining the data from the modulator with each other and with a spreading code for transmission on a carrier signal

10. A subscriber unit as claimed in claim 9, further comprising a transmitter circuit for transmitting the carrier signal carrying the spread, combined, modulated data

11. A subscriber unit as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the encoder is arranged to effect low code rate error correction and sequence repetition to the information data

12. A base station or other receiver for use in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising: a receiver for receiving a carrier signal and removing therefrom encoded information data from plural information sources modulated with respective different modulating codes and control data from plural control sources with the encoded control data being combined with each other; a demodulator for demodulating the encoded information data and the control data from their respective different modulating codes; and a decoder for decoding the encoded information data and demodulating the control data

13. A method of transmission in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: acquiring plural information data; encoding the information data; acquiring plural control data; modulating encoded information data with respective different modulating codes for transmission on a carrier signal; combining the control data from the plural sources; and outputting the encoded information data and the combined control data for transmission

14. A method for generating modulated data for transmission from a first subscriber unit in a set of subscriber units wherein said first subscriber unit transmits control data and pilot data to a base station in communication with the set of subscriber units comprising: a) combining said control data with said pilot data; and b) modulating said combined control data and pilot data onto in accordance with a single channel modulation format.']