A wireless communication terminal (10) having a plurality of radio receiver branches (11a-c) all ordinarily for use in receiving a downlink frequency from a radio access network (15), but configured to intermittently tune one or another of the branches (11a-c) to a non-downlink frequency (causing reduced receiver performance in receiving the downlink frequency), but doing so only when expected by the radio access network (15) (or other entity of a wireless communication network with which the wireless communication terminal is in wireless communication).