The invention relates to a method for transmitting data from a radio network subsystem over a radio link to user equipment in a mobile telephone system, a radio network subsystem, and user equipment. The radio network subsystem transmits a dedicated physical channel to the user equipment. The dedicated physical channel comprises a dedicated physical control channel and a dedicated physical data channel. The dedicated physical channel is formed by frames to be transmitted to the radio link. During transmission, the radio network subsystem spreads each channel with a spreading code, the length of which spreading code, i.e. spreading factor, determines the data transmission rate.