1. A method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE), comprising: determining capabilities of the UE to support at least one of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) or coordinated multipoint (CoMP) features on different operating frequency bands of a radio access network (RAN); signaling, to a base station (BS) of the RAN, a first combination of capabilities of the UE for a combination of bands; signaling, to the BS, a second combination of capabilities, different than the first combination of capabilities, for the combination of bands; and identifying, based on one or more criteria, a particular combination of capabilities to be used to communicate with the BS.