I'm currently on U.S. Cellular. My husband is on Verizon. Both have worked well for us. When I pulled up Consumer Cellular and punched in my zip code it said service was not available.
PM me your ZIP code if you're willing... I'll be happy to do a little research.
Otherwise, your best choice will be a Verizon MVNO such as Selectel or US Mobile. If you're looking for a smartphone, best bang for buck would be a Moto G4 Play XT1609, if you're looking at actually needing a Verizon MVNO. If you buy used, make sure the ESN is clean, it's carrier unlocked, and can be activated with a Verizon MVNO. Not too big, decent battery life (for a smartphone), user replaceable battery, mostly vanilla Android build, no real show-stopper hardware bugs, reasonable update cycle, easy aftermarket ROM support if needed to extend life further. Basic Verizon non-smartphone handsets are a bit taller of an order (though the list is quite short and not very good, honestly) if you want to ensure future calling support post CDMA shutdown.
I don't know why Cricket doesn't get more love on this forum.
Cricket gets way more love around here than you think, but even that is too much, IMHO.
This said, I'm partially responsible for that lack of consideration in these parts. I've made several observations over the years about AT&T's past practices and their business model with Cricket that brings forward a lot of ethical concerns for others, from their anti-competitive wholesale pricing to other MVNOs due to a lack of regulation in an effort to starve out the competition, to the inexcusable litany of poor taxes that Cricket will charge customers for handling account related issues that literally no other mobile provider on the planet charges for.
Carrier brands like Cricket, MetroPCS and Boost are doing a great deal of damage to the very market diversity and businesses that finally forced the hands of these companies to drop prices and open up the prepaid market in this country in the first place. It's kinda messed up that it took wholesalers reselling airtime to actually provide cheaper and more affordable mobile service calling plans in this country, but it's how it happened... but once those wholesalers stopped providing an extra revenue stream and started to erode the major carriers' ridiculous profit margins and positive growth, they declared open war to reclaim those users; and the MVNO market is no longer as healthy as it once was, and per month prices are rising once more as competition keeps dying off. Unfortunately, we have no regulation to mandate fair wholesale market access to the mobile networks for competitors, like so many other countries who actually
do have affordable mobile calling plans have. As such, we have to literally vote with our wallets if we want to preserve actual choice (not that I think this is even a remotely winnable fight anymore after the past six weeks of FCC policy changes). That means not making deals directly with the major carriers who've built their empires on customer abuse and overcharging, and supporting the MVNOs that actually treat their customers well and provide actual affordable alternative calling plans...
The community is supposed to value making the world a better place. Not supporting an unscrupulous company that abuses their customer base and market position should be one of those values embraced.