Abstract-A truncated adaptive transmission scheme for the hybrid multicarrier CDMA/FDM system is considered in forward link. In the proposed scheme, a data substream is transmitted over the subchannels of which the channel gains are greater than a given threshold, based on the feedback information from the mobile station. We analyze the performance of the proposed system when orthogonal and random signature sequences are used in single-and multiple-cell environment. In the single-cell environment, when orthogonal signature sequences are used, the proposed scheme outperforms the adaptive FH/DS system as well as the conventional MC DS/CDMA system, and accommodates more users than the adaptive FH/DS system while maintaining the orthogonality between users. In the multiple-cell environment also, the proposed scheme has better performance characteristics than the adaptive FH/DS system when orthogonal or random codes are used as spreading sequences.