A method and system for combining a guard interval and a corresponding portion of a received symbol, whereby when receiving a signal that contains the symbol with a guard interval corresponding to the symbol, a portion of the guard interval that is free from inter-symbol interference may be extracted, and the extracted portion of the guard interval may be combined with the corresponding portion of the symbol. The extracting and combining may be done after a determining, based on a delay profile provided by the received signal, that a delay spread is smaller than a predetermined channel delay. The delay spread may be determined by filtering an instantaneous delay spread associated with the received signal. The filtering may be performed using a 1-tap infinite impulse response low-pass filter. The low-pass filter may include a time constant that is the inverse of a maximum Doppler frequency shift.