Techniques for broadcasting and receiving system information in a radio access network (RAN) are described. In one embodiment, the base station includes at least one antenna, at least one wireless communication device configured to perform cellular communication using radio access technology (RAT), and one or more processors coupled to the wireless communication device. In this embodiment, the base station is configured to broadcast first system information blocks (SIBs) encoded using a first coding rate and a first identifier. In this embodiment, the base station is also configured to broadcast second SIBs encoded using a second coding rate and a second identifier lower than the first coding rate. In this embodiment, the second SIBs comprise only a portion of the information contained in the first SIBs, and the second SIBs are allocated to user equipment devices (UEs) with a limited link budget to determine access parameters for the base station Lt; / RTI
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