Cooperative concatenated coding techniques are provided for wireless communications between at least two users and a base station. A network system employing cooperative concatenated coding includes cooperating user devices each configured to encode and transmit at least a potion of a joint message. The joint message includes at least a potion of a first message from a first cooperating user device and at least a potion of a second message from a second cooperating user device. An embodiment includes encoding a first message from a first cooperating user, receiving a second message from a second cooperating user and decoding the second message. The methodology also includes re-encoding at least a potion of the decoded message with at least a potion of the first message to form a combined message, and then transmitting at least a potion of the combined message.