The present invention relates to a telecommunication method in a wireless
cellular telecommunication system having a radio network controller and a
base station, where the method receives a number of orthogonal variable
spreading factor codes from the radio network controller by the base
station, evaluates a load situation by the base station, and in case the
orthogonal variable spreading factor codes received from the radio
network controller are insufficient for the load situation: requesting a
change of the number of orthogonal variable spreading factor codes from
the radio network controller by the base station.