A receiver system to receive an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of a certain spectrum efficiency. The receiver system includes a guard interval remover, a memory device, and a pulse shaper. The guard interval remover removes a guard interval from the OFDM symbol received by the receiver. The memory device stores a pulse shaping algorithm. The pulse shaper performs the pulse shaping algorithm to substantially maintain the certain spectrum efficiency in conjunction with the utilization of a Nyquist pulse shape with an excess bandwidth≦1.0.