A method and apparatus is described herein for controlling the operating temperature of radio equipment (44, 46) in a radio base station (10) while preventing a decrease in power of a common channel. A radio base station (10) according to the present invention includes a radio unit (40) and a control unit (20). The radio unit (40) determines a temperature of the radio unit (40), e.g., by determining a temperature of high power radio equipment (46) in the radio unit (40). The control unit (20) allocates a desired power to the common channel, determines an available power for dedicated and/or shared channels based on the allocated power for the common channel and a power limit derived from the determined temperature, and allocates the available power to the dedicated and/or shared channels.