Themutual and Totalise hope to net more users

Two of the free-shares-for-usage ISPs are stepping up their marketing activity this week.

Themutual.net, whose shares are traded on AIM, is encouraging its more than 120,000 users to sign up new users. The incentive is a pyramid-based commission scheme that, it claims, could be worth more than pound 100,000 in free shares to its most zealous members.

Emulating the scheme operated by pay-to-surf specialist AllAdvantage.co.uk, Themutual.net will allowits members to take a commission from...