In earlier (around 2009) versions of the ToS that section reads like this:

*You agree not to use the XMPP API to operate or to enable any 
telecommunications service or in connection with any applications that 
allow users to place calls to or receive calls from any public switched 
telephone network.*

That seems reasonable to me. After all, looking at the heavy usage 
restrictions of the channel API, realtime-communication isn't the 
infrastructure's biggest forte and running a telephony system on top of 
XMPP could be considered misuse.

I don't think Google Voice is that big a profit center to justify such 
restrictions. Maybe it's some kind of regulation I don't know about. 

Does that section really disallow ANY type of interaction of an appengine 
hosted site with ANY other web based application that connects to the PSTN 
even if that interaction is only part of the client side HTML/Javascript 
code and does NOT happen inside appengine?
If so, would that include interacting with Google Voice? How about 
embedding a skype call button or a SIP-URL in my HTML?

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