The key feature of a MetroE is to hook you up to the nearest telco datacentre or node within 1-2 hops away then from there you get access directly to the internet.

Normal consumer/business shared services is much more complicated and involves many more hops before reaching the telco's gateway.

There are a few other players in the MetroE market:

NTT MSC
Extreme Broadband
Time
MyKris
IP Core
Aries Telecom
City Broadband
MacroLynx
Viewqwest