| Mobile Station | New mobile station is needed for accessing GPRS services. They are backward compatible with GSM for voice calls |
| Base Transceiver Station | Software upgrade is needed in the existing BTS |
| Base Station Controller | Software upgrade and new hardware, Packet Control Unit are needed for GPRS. |
| GPRS Support Nodes | Installation of new core network elements, known as serving GPRS support node, and gateway GPRS support node are needed to deploy GPRS |
| Databases | Requires software upgrade to handle new models and functions to handle databases involved in the network |