Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for transmitting Long Term Evolution in unlicensed spectrum LTE-U carrier information, a base station, and user equipment. The method includes: determining, by a base station, a physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel PHICH resource; using, by the base station, the PHICH resource to indicate the LTE-U carrier information; and sending, by the base station to user equipment, the PHICH resource that indicates the LTE-U carrier information. In the embodiments of the present invention, network signaling overheads can be reduced.