A method for detecting OTFS pilot interference including receiving delay-Doppler-domain samples of a received OTFS delay-Doppler frame, wherein the delay-Doppler domain samples are derived by a two-dimensional symplectic Fourier transformation of time-frequency domain samples resulting from sampling a time-varying received OFTS coded signal; summing the squares of the amplitudes of the delay-Doppler domain samples of the delay-Doppler grid positions evaluated for the channel estimation to establish the received non-interfering pilot power; summing the squares of the amplitudes of all the delay-Doppler domain samples of the complete delay-Doppler grid to establish the total received frame power; comparing a pilot power ratio derived by dividing the non-interfering pilot power by the total received frame power with a guard space ratio derived by dividing the sum of the number of guard and pilot grid spaces in the transmitted OTFS frame by the total number of grid spaces of the transmitted OTFS frame.