At last Airtel has figured out what is happening in Jio's welcome offer. Jio's welcome offer though looks like a FREE offer, it really encourages low ARPU customers (like secondary SIM users) to go for higher denomination or long validity recharges. Even though, it allowed heavy usage on their 5G network, this made their 4G network condition to improve drastically. Even though some may experience bad speed in poor coverage areas of 5G, they will never care as they think it is FREE. Jio will use this data to find the areas to improve coverage and capacity. So it is a win-win game for Jio, which Airtel understand just now and want to play it their way like giving offer to only few people.
Coming to Airtel, Avoiding Rs1799 plan is their way of denying service to low ARPU users. I have recharged with that plan for 2 years (maximum allowed I guess in Airtel). But, I don't care. Airtel's 5G coverage is like BSNL's 4G coverage. It's there, but nobody knows where. In Nagpur, Jio 5G was available almost everywhere, may be except 2 streets (from my personal experience), whereas Airtel 5G I have seen in one or two places only. Airtel just launched 5G, just to protect its high ARPU customer base from jumping to Jio.
But with unlimited 5G from both 5G operators, this will prove to be a very big issue for VoId. The next level of problem will come to VoId when Jio launches Vo5G.