LF Broadband presented at the BBF BASe Summit in Milan on June 4-5, 2026, bringing the arguments from the recently published white paper “Open, Observable, Intelligent: Building the Foundation for AI in Fixed Broadband Access” to an audience of operators, vendors, and standards community members. The session made a case that has become central to LF Broadband’s 2026 work: the practical path to AI in broadband networks runs through architecture, not models. The session featured Francisco De…