diff --git a/recipes-connectivity/modemmanager/files/0001-core-switch-bash-shell-scripts-to-use-bin-sh-for-use.patch b/recipes-connectivity/modemmanager/files/0001-core-switch-bash-shell-scripts-to-use-bin-sh-for-use.patch
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..c4caad1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-connectivity/modemmanager/files/0001-core-switch-bash-shell-scripts-to-use-bin-sh-for-use.patch
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../../meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/modemmanager/files/0001-core-switch-bash-shell-scripts-to-use-bin-sh-for-use.patch
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/recipes-connectivity/modemmanager/modemmanager_1.14.8.bb b/recipes-connectivity/modemmanager/modemmanager_1.14.8.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index a13df33..0000000
--- a/recipes-connectivity/modemmanager/modemmanager_1.14.8.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-# NB: backport from meta-oe/master
-
-SUMMARY = "ModemManager is a daemon controlling broadband devices/connections"
-DESCRIPTION = "ModemManager is a DBus-activated daemon which controls mobile broadband (2G/3G/4G) devices and connections"
-HOMEPAGE = "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ModemManager/"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
-    file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
-    file://COPYING.LIB;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
-"
-
-inherit gnomebase gettext systemd vala gobject-introspection bash-completion
-
-DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 libgudev intltool-native libxslt-native"
-
-SRC_URI = "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/ModemManager/ModemManager-${PV}.tar.xz"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "fe1a26ba51b4bda7abd09ad4dadedd87d8b8154809fc9d88e94f75fdfff19295"
-S = "${WORKDIR}/ModemManager-${PV}"
-
-PACKAGECONFIG = "systemd"
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "mbim qmi \
-    ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd polkit', d)} \
-"
-
-PACKAGECONFIG[at] = "--with-at-command-via-dbus"
-PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "--with-systemdsystemunitdir=${systemd_unitdir}/system/,,"
-PACKAGECONFIG[polkit] = "--with-polkit=yes,--with-polkit=no,polkit"
-# Support WWAN modems and devices which speak the Mobile Interface Broadband Model (MBIM) protocol.
-PACKAGECONFIG[mbim] = "--with-mbim,--without-mbim,libmbim"
-# Support WWAN modems and devices which speak the Qualcomm MSM Interface (QMI) protocol.
-PACKAGECONFIG[qmi] = "--with-qmi,--without-qmi,libqmi"
-
-EXTRA_OECONF = " \
-    --with-udev-base-dir=${nonarch_base_libdir}/udev \
-"
-
-FILES:${PN} += " \
-    ${datadir}/icons \
-    ${datadir}/polkit-1 \
-    ${datadir}/dbus-1 \
-    ${datadir}/ModemManager \
-    ${libdir}/ModemManager \
-    ${systemd_unitdir}/system \
-"
-
-FILES:${PN}-dev += " \
-    ${libdir}/ModemManager/*.la \
-"
-
-FILES:${PN}-staticdev += " \
-    ${libdir}/ModemManager/*.a \
-"
-
-FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/ModemManager/.debug"
-
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "ModemManager.service"
-
diff --git a/recipes-connectivity/modemmanager/modemmanager_git.bb b/recipes-connectivity/modemmanager/modemmanager_git.bb
index 907c1d7..403a601 100644
--- a/recipes-connectivity/modemmanager/modemmanager_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-connectivity/modemmanager/modemmanager_git.bb
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
-require recipes-connectivity/modemmanager/modemmanager_1.14.8.bb
+require recipes-connectivity/modemmanager/modemmanager_1.18.8.bb
 
 # Use custom git repo as SRC
-SRC_URI = "git://gitlab.com/netmodule/third-party/ModemManager;protocol=ssh;user=git;branch=mm-1-14-netmodule;"
-SRCREV ?= "35ef2f387bf53f0601901a5f08ab0f6bf57105c4"
+SRC_URI = " \
+    git://gitlab.com/netmodule/third-party/ModemManager;protocol=ssh;user=git;branch=mm-1-18-netmodule \
+    file://0001-core-switch-bash-shell-scripts-to-use-bin-sh-for-use.patch \
+"
+
+SRCREV = "a092259df33cc70a04826f0e7117475ac9b26f99"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
 # Keep only ublox plugin