Embodiments of the present invention disclose a user equipment, a network side device, and a method for sending a DPCCH, which relate to the field of communications, so as to implement that the network side device knows a moment at which a DPCCH is sent and a DPCCH is periodically sent. Solutions provided in the embodiments of the present invention include: receiving indication information sent by the network side device by using the user equipment; activating a second carrier of DC-HSUPA according to the indication information; acquiring uplink DTX parameters; and periodically sending an uplink DPCCH on the second carrier of the DC-HSUPA according to the indication information and the uplink DTX parameters. The present invention is used to send a DPCCH.