In an indoor wireless communication environment, the effect of multipath fading (or equivalently speaking, intersymbol interference (ISI)) is a significant factor that can degrade communication quality. In this paper, we propose a joint error control and equalization scheme to deal with this problem. We call this scheme by the name of diversified turbo equalization (abbreviated as DTE). It is an extension of the turbo equalization (abbreviated as TE) scheme proposed by Douillard et al., 1995. At the receiver, iterative decoding is applied to equalize the received signal and decode the data bits. We also present an analytical method, based on EXIT (extrinsic information transfer) charts, to predict the BER performance of DTE. Realizing the power of diversity in fighting the fading effect, we generalize the DTE for use in the MIMO (multiple‐input multiple‐output) scenario, where spatial diversity is provided. The resultant scheme is called MIMO‐DTE. Simulation results on DTE show two things. First, the DTE is better (in bit error rate (BER) performance) than the TE when the channel signal‐to‐noise power ratio (SNR) is high enough. Second, the predicted BER's are close to the experimentally obtained results. As to the MIMO‐DTE, simulation results show that its BER performance is better than both the DTE and the TE.