In some aspects of the disclosure, the base station 404 may transmit a row identifier in RMSI to the UE 402 to indicate which downlink control channels may be repeated (e.g., to indicate a set of repeatable downlink control channels), the indication for activating or deactivating repetition of those downlink control channels, and any rules/parameters for controlling the repetition of those downlink control channels. For example, the base station 404 may transmit the bits ‘001’ (assigned to the second row 612 in the configuration information table 600) to the UE 402 in RMSI. This may inform the UE 402 that transmission of a PRACH preamble with Type B format may serve as an indication for activating repetition of the PDCCH for message 2 and the PDCCH for message 4 of a random access procedure (e.g., for message 2 (Msg2) 410 and message 4 (Msg4) 414 of the 4-step random access procedure in