It has been asked in the past, apparently it costs a lot to mobile browsers, so it's been disabled.
Check this comment by @PaulIrish:
Fixed-backgrounds have huge repaint cost and decimate scrolling performance, which is, I believe, why it was disabled.
you can see workarounds to this in this posts:
Fixed background image with ios7
Fixed body background scrolls with the page on iOS7
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