disclosed is a rf receiver that includes baseband circuitry for performing minimum mean - square error optimization for substantially simultaneously suppressing inter - symbol interference and co - channel interference on a signal stream that comprises real and imaginary signal components . in a preferred embodiment the receiver includes a single receive antenna , and operates as a single / multi antenna interference cancellation receiver . the baseband circuitry operates to determine a set of in - phase and quadrature phase mmse vector weights that are used to perform the isi suppression and the cci suppression . a method for operating the receiver is also disclosed .