Mis Sold - What Now???

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Having signed up to BT Infinity 2 package with BT TV etc, I finally got my line connected on the 18th February. On signing up, I got notified I should expect 73.4mb down and 20mb up. Line got connected and couldnt get above 30 down and 4.5 up. Rang BT and got told initially "tough, thats good speeds for your line". When I kicked off they finally agreed I should have an Openreach Engineer to visit - free this time because I am still a new customer, which was really good of them - and he has now told me that my line is maxxed out at the the heady speeds of 43.2 down and 13 up. To say I am p*ssed off with this is an understatement and I now want out of the contract due to misleading information at sign up and being mis sold the package. 
To be told on the phone that although I was told that I would get 73.4/20 I cant complain because 43 is well within an acceptable range of the upper limit is an absolute joke. Dropping nearly 40% off my initial sign up speed?? Really???
So I want advice on what course take next - was told today by some cheeky BT Options CSA that "you are in a contract, so you will have to pay to get out of it" is not on. I am guessing raising a complaint with OFCOM is probably going to be the only way out of this. 
Forgot to mention - at no point during the signup was I told I what range my speeds may be apart from the initial 73.4/20. If I had been told that I could maybe end up with only a max speed of 43, i would never have went ahead and would have went with the Virgin deal that was on offer.
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Complaining to Ofcom will do you no good. They do not deal with individual complaints. If you were wanting to complain you would need to go through the BT complaints procedure and after it has been exhausted you ask for a deadlock letter then take it to the ombudsman.
However rather than doing all that you would be better to try and get your problem resolved.
The speeds are sold as "up to" and not "as" or "guaranteed". You should be getting the speed between those shown in the Range A estimate, that is between 54Mbps and 73Mbps. As you are clearly not getting that it would appear there is still a problem with your connection. 
The estimater takes into account your distance to the cabinet and would reflect this in the estimated speeds, Even if the line is 700 meters from the cabinet to your house you should still be getting better than what you are getting. See graph for a rough guide distance to speed.
While the engineer may have replaced the entire line from the cabinet to your house I have my doubts.
You need to contact BT again and inform them of this and don't be fobbed off with "that is as good as you'll get" or anything else.