To provide a mobile terminal controlling suitably whether or not a diversity reception should be performed to realize low power consumption, and a data reception method for the same, wherein a mobile phone, when performing a data communication from a server apparatus via a communication network and a base station, decides a necessary and sufficient data rate ODR0 based on a transfer data including an amount of data received and downloaded from the base station and a pilot strength Ec/Io to be an index of a reception status, and judges whether or not the diversity reception should be performed based on a comparison result between the ODR0 and DRC which is the maximum data rate receivable at error rate less than a predetermined value.