BT not delivering stayfast guarantee speed

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I’m posting this to see what others might think.
I recently moved home and as I already had a BT broadband contract imported it with me. In making the arrangements BT told me, and sent me a contract to the effect, that the estimated speed at my new property would be 29-36 Mbps with a ‘stayfast guarantee of 25 Mbps. However, the actual speed I get is 20 Mbps, sometimes a couple of Mb less. I’ve had the Openreach engineer who has checked everything at the cabinet (it is FTTC), at the pole, at at my house, and found no faults. He told me the problem is that I am situated 500 metres from the cabinet and from there to my house is copper wire.His measured max speed was also 20 Mbps.
I recently moved home and as I already had a BT broadband contract imported it with me. In making the arrangements BT told me, and sent me a contract to the effect, that the estimated speed at my new property would be 29-36 Mbps with a ‘stayfast guarantee of 25 Mbps. However, the actual speed I get is 20 Mbps, sometimes a couple of Mb less. I’ve had the Openreach engineer who has checked everything at the cabinet (it is FTTC), at the pole, at at my house, and found no faults. He told me the problem is that I am situated 500 metres from the cabinet and from there to my house is copper wire.His measured max speed was also 20 Mbps.
So I have a contract which I think was missold, and where BT is in breach of its guaranteed minimum speed and its estimated speeds. However there is no other provider of a network where I live so even if I left BT I can’t get any faster speeds from any other provider. I’m inclined to take the issue up with BT as a breach of contract issue, and to argue for specific performance ie that BT does what it takes to give me what it contracted to give me and what I have paid for. BT say on their website that where minimum granted speed isn’t delivered they award £20 compensation, but that feels risible to me over the term of the contract, when they are delivering only 80% of the guaranteed speed but want 100% of the contract price (less £20).
Has anyone else been in this situation where you have argued for specific performance of the contract and succeeded? Or argued for a reduction in price commensurate with proportion of speed not delivered?
Have others got any useful observations on how to approach this?
Has anyone else been in this situation where you have argued for specific performance of the contract and succeeded? Or argued for a reduction in price commensurate with proportion of speed not delivered?
Have others got any useful observations on how to approach this?
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I recently moved home and as I already had a BT broadband contract imported it with me. In making the arrangements BT told me, and sent me a contract to the effect, that the estimated speed at my new property would be 29-36 Mbps with a ‘stayfast guarantee of 25 Mbps. However, the actual speed I get is 20 Mbps, sometimes a couple of Mb less. I’ve had the Openreach engineer who has checked everything at the cabinet (it is FTTC), at the pole, at at my house, and found no faults. He told me the problem is that I am situated 500 metres from the cabinet and from there to my house is copper wire.Hismeasured max speed was also 20 Mbps.
Has anyone else been in this situation where you have argued for specific performance of the contract and succeeded? Or argued for a reduction in price commensurate with proportion of speed not delivered?
Have others got any useful observations on how to approach this?
It's not really anything to do with your credit file, so better to post on the broadband board.
What resolution are you expecting?
What will you do if BT compensate you and cancel the contract, which from what you say they can't fulfill?
That is £20, and the option to leave your contract penalty free - if you've followed the process correctly. But the bottom line is, BT aren't going to be able to improve your line until FTTP is available to you.
https://www.bt.com/help/broadband/what-is-bt-s-stay-fast-guarantee-
If you have home insurance, check to see if you have legal expenses cover. If you do, talk to the legal helpline provided by your insurer. They will confirm if there is any hope of suing BT successfully.
The OFCOM minimum speed guarantee which BT have signed up to is at https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/advice/broadband-speeds-code-practice. It says:
If you think your broadband is slower than it should be, contact your provider to diagnose the problem. If the problem lies within their network, and they can’t fix it within 30 days, they must offer you the right to exit your contract without being penalised.
So, you can get out of the contract with BT as they aren't meeting that minimum speed, but can't force them to meet that minimum speed. Exiting won't do you much good speed wise unless you can get an alternative to Openreach such a Virgin as any other ISP on Openreach will provide the same speed.
Monthly cost is likely to be your best leverage, either getting BT price down, or find another cheaper supplier.
Whoever you sign up with next will use the same lines and you'll get the same speeds.
Not going to happen. The cost would be many thousands of pounds and is completely disproportionate. The contractual option, as already highlighted is to leave the contracts penalty free. There is no linear relationship between speed and retail cost, but you might get a goodwill reduction if you stay.