A user equipment, UE, is described. The UE comprises physical layer control circuitry configured to, prior to a multiple PRACH retransmission, determine whether to change a number of transmissions of the multiple PRACH transmission, and send higher layers a notification to suspend the power ramping counter in case the number of transmissions is determined to be changed and higher layer control circuitry configured to determine whether to increment the ramping counter based on whether the notification is sent or not.