An apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium in various embodiments includes a transmitter that establishes a radio connection that sends signals to a user equipment using a required transmission power; a receiver that receives a signal sent by the user equipment over the radio connection, the signal comprising at least one power control command determined by the user equipment; and a processor configured to specify the required transmission power in the transmitter using a delay requirement of a service to be transferred over the radio connection and the at least one power control command as a basis for making the power control decision, wherein at least one dedicated physical channel and at least a part of a shared physical channel that is time-divisionally shared are allocated to the user equipment on the radio connection, wherein the processor is further configured to carry out the power control of the time-divisionally shared physical channel on the basis of the power control decision of the dedicated physical channel.