Methods to provide communications with a wireless terminal in a soft handover are provided. A method to provide communications with a wireless terminal in a soft handover may include receiving, when the wireless terminal is in the soft handover with respect to a serving base station and a non-serving base station, a retransmission indication through the non-serving base station or the serving base station. The method may include generating an uplink data rate offset value responsive to the retransmission indication. Moreover, the method may include transmitting the uplink data rate offset value to the serving base station for transmission to the wireless terminal. Related nodes and wireless terminals are also provided.