Embodiments of the present invention relate to the communications field, and provide a method for an uplink softer handover and a user equipment, which can support an uplink softer handover in a cell forward access channel state, so as to improve performance of a user equipment located on an edge of a cell, and meanwhile increase processing efficiency of a base station. The method is: detecting signal quality or signal strength of an intra-frequency neighboring cell; if there is an intra-frequency neighboring cell whose signal quality or signal strength meets a first threshold, reporting, through a physical control channel or by using scheduling information, related information of the intra-frequency neighboring cell that meets the first threshold to a base station to which a user equipment belongs; then, configuring, by means of predefinition or a network, a repetition period for transmitting the related information of the intra-frequency neighboring cell, and repeatedly transmitting multiple pieces of same related information of the intra-frequency neighboring cell in the repetition period, so that the base station combines the multiple pieces of the same related information of the intra-frequency neighboring cell. In the embodiments of the present invention, an uplink softer handover is supported in the cell forward access channel state.