An apparatus and method for simultaneously providing service to users each having a different number of antennas in a multiple-antenna wireless communication system are provided. The communication method discloses a BS in a wireless communication system that services a first multiple antenna mode using X transmit antennas and a second multiple antenna mode using Y transmit antennas such that (Y>X), the BS determines an MS to be serviced in the second multiple antenna mode and receives a sounding signal from the MS. The BS estimates an uplink channel using the received sounding signal and acquires downlink channel values using estimated uplink channel values. Then the BS services the MS in the second multiple antenna mode using the downlink channel values.